The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.

It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things.

The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune.

All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.