The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.
The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.
It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan.
I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.
It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people - and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this purpose, we should be taxing forty millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.
The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.
It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.
We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.
[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.
The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.
Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
Suicide is not a remedy
I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.
The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.
It would convert the Treasury of the United States into a manufactory of paper money. It makes the House of Representatives and the Senate, or the caucus of the party which happens to be in the majority, the absolute dictator of the financial and business affairs of this country. This scheme surpasses all the centralism and all the Caesarism that were ever charged upon the Republican party in the wildest days of the war or in the events growing out of the war.
For love of country, they accepted death.
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