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

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

A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.

Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field; wherever a mine yields its treasure; wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market; wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds; even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.

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