Government is not a warfare of interests.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't payand that's all one can sayabout it.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.

We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.

...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.