The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself, as a mariner by the rattling of his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout.