The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

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

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand