I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen.

No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.

The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union.