The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.

Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

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

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.