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

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

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

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

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

The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community.

There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.