If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people, organizing for justice, for liberty, and for happiness, meant. Our flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings. This American flag was the safeguard of liberty. It was an ordinance of liberty by the people, for the people. That it meant, that it means, and, by the blessing of God, that it shall mean to the end of time!

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.

In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.