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

I believe very profoundly in an over-ruling Providence, and I do not fear that any real plans can be thrown off the track. It maynot be intended that I shall be President--but that would not break my heart.

While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.

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.

We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.