It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

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.

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.

Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.