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

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

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.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

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