I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.

I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.

It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

If the educated and influential classes in a community either practice or connive at the systematic violation of laws that seem to them to cross their convenience, what can they expect when the lesson that convenience or a supposed class interest is a sufficient cause for lawlessness has been well learned by the ignorant classes?

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.