We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

The question is not what you look at – but how you look & whether you see.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fight for.

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.