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

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.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!

..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.

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