Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.

A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.

Intellect is stronger than cannon.