Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

The fewer the desires, the more peace.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

My dream is that as the years go by and the world knows more and more of America, itwill turn to America for those moral inspirations that lie at the basis of all freedomthat America will come into the full light of the day when all shall know that she puts human rights above all other rights, and that her flag is the flag not only of America but of humanity.

What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.