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

The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.