If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land - nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution.

On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like "another morn," "Risen on mid-noon;" and the sky on which you closed your eye was cloudless.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.