There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.

Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.

The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.

Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.