Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.

I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object