It is now true that this is God's Country, if equal rights-a fair start and an equal chance in the race of life are everywhere secured to all.

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

We people in camp are merely big children, wayward and changeable.

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

The best hopes of any community rest upon that class of its gifted young men who are not encumbered with large possessions.... I now speak of extensive scholarship and ripe culture in science and art.... It is not large possessions, it is large expectations, or rather large hopes, that stimulate the ambition of the young.

He serves his party best who serves the country best.

I too mean to be out of politics. The ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment gives me the boon of equality before the law, terminates my enlistment, and discharges me cured.