besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.

So much of the presidency is a matter of standing in the path of a Newsham Engine for Quenching Fires, opening one's mouth, and attempting to get a drink.

Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.

I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing; as a wise Creator must have seen to be necessary in an animal destined to live in society.

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.