At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

My policy is to have no policy.

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.