The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

A lost article invariably shows up after you replace it.

Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.