Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.

They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

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

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

There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.

Ideas control the world.