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

The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,--and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

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.

There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before.

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.