Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.

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

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been a Divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.