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

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.