The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.

An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.

Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.