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.

For love of country, they accepted death.

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

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

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

Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death. Christianity, on the other hand leads only the natural body to death, and for the spirit, it points out a house not built with hands, eternal in the heavens... Let me urge you to follow Him, not as the Nazarene, the Man of Galilee, the carpenter's son, but as the ever living spiritual person, full of love and compassion, who will stand by you in life and death and eternity.

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