We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.

Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth.

Human life, from the cradle to the grave, is a school. At every period of his existence man wants a teacher. His pilgrimage upon earth is but a term of childhood, in which he is to be educated for the manhood of a brighter world. As the child must be educated for manhood upon earth, so the man must be educated upon earth, for heaven; and finally that where the foundation is not laid in time, the superstructure can not rise for eternity.

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!

The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.