Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.