Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.

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.

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

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

The thought of going abroad makes my heart leap.

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