Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.