The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.

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

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.