We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.

Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children's richest legacy, for what shall it profit our nation if it shall gain the whole world and lose “the spirit that prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands everywhere”?

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.

No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.