A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

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

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.