Say what you mean to do...and take it for granted you mean to do right. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one...you will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.

Postal officials say that before Christmas they receive tons of letters written to Santa Claus, but after Christmas how few letters of thanks are sent to him! From childhood onward, human beings seem to be characterized by thanklessness.

The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last.

We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.

There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.