I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.

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

We grow by our dreams.

"Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.