In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money to their lives. It preoccupies their thoughts, creates artificial needs, and draws a curtain between them and the world.

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.

In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money to their lives. It preoccupies their thoughts, creates artificial needs, and draws a curtain between them and the world.