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

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.

Ideas control the world.

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.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.