If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Performance should be made square with promise.