The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known and seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men.

The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible; and the same remedy will make us so.

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.