Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country, and the maligners of his honor.

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.