This is history written in lightning.

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

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.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.

Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.