Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field; wherever a mine yields its treasure; wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market; wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds; even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

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

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.