I am not one of those who have the least anxiety about the triumph of the principles I have stood for. I have seen fools resist Providence before, and I have seen their destruction, as will come upon these again, utter destruction and contempt. That we shall prevail is as sure as that God reigns.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.