I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times.

A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific

Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.

It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.