Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.

The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.