I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.