War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.
There is no indispensable man.
Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.