The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

The massacres are the result of a policy which, as far as can be ascertained, has been entertained for some considerable time by the gang of unscrupulous adventurers who are now in possession of the Government of the Turkish Empire. They hesitated to put it in practice until they thought the favorable moment had come, and that moment seems to have arrived about the month of April.

There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose or obey one will so that instead of making steady way the vessel may pursue a devious or zigzag course, and sometimes merely turn round and round in the water.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.