I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

When you have got a ticket to send, and you're not a top costumer, it's best not to waste your time.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

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.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.