The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.

My best training came from my father.