Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

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.

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

There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies.