I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

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.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

For love of country, they accepted death.