Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life. |
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. |
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law. |
He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation. |
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people. |
Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter. |
Right reason is stronger than force. |
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission. |
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality. |
If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. |
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty. |
I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike. |
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it. |