The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

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

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

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

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

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

We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.