If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.

We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.

Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.

What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon our dearest rights and possessions.

There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.