Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.