[It is possible] that the race of red men ... will, before many generations, be remembered only as a strange, weird, dream-like specter, which has passed once before the eyes of men, but had departed forever.

The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

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

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

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

There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it.