America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.

There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.

The treasury of America lies in those ambitions, those energies, that cannot be restricted to a special favored class. It depends upon the inventions of unknown men, upon the originations of unknown men, upon the ambitions of unknown men. Every country is renewed out of the ranks of the unknown, not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.

Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.

The fewer the desires, the more peace.

In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.