To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.

God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!

To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.