True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties, and real ones cannot be evaded by political parties. The real political issues of the day declare themselves, and come out of the depths of that deep which we call public opinion.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.