The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.

Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward

No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.

That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.

You create your own universe as you go along.