Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

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.

Be militant! Be an organization that is going to do things! If you can find older men who will give you countenance and acceptableleadership, follow them; but if you cannot, organize separately and dispense with them. There are only two sorts of men to be associated with when something is to be done: Those are young men and men who never grow old.

What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.

I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.

The right is more precious than peace.