Great lives never go out; they go on.

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?

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?

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

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