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

For love of country, they accepted death.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field; wherever a mine yields its treasure; wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market; wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds; even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.

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

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

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.