The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.