We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

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

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

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

We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.