God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!

We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.

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

The divorce between church and state should be absolute.

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