Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.

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

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

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.

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

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.