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

It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan.

A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

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

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.