The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

It's bad. It's damned bad.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Honor is better than honors.

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.