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

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

Suicide is not a remedy

We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.

I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.

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.