The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.

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

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance

I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.