Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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.

If you love something, set it free.

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

Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.

I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.

I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.