A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

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!