History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.