A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show

Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.

..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.