Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

Endurance is the crowning quality.

There is something magnificent in having a country to love.