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.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.

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.

Love is the wine of existence.