Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it and inscribed for our motto: 'Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever,' and exclaim, 'Christ first, our country next!'

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!

The enactment of the Homestead Act would create the strongest tie between the citizen and the Government-he would with cheerfulness contribute his proportionable part of the taxes to defray the expenses of the political system under which he lived.