It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.

I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office, irrespective of former party opinions, who will endeavour to make the new constitutions and the laws passed under them as beneficial as possible to the true interests, prosperity, and liberty of all classes and conditions of the people.

We cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass, if we cannot destroy them.

The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The seems to be true. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.