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

They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,--and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

This is history written in lightning.

The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.