The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.

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

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

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

The divorce between church and state should be absolute.