A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

It is possible that the race of red men ... will, before many generations, be remembered only as a strange, weird, dream-like specter, which has passed once before the eyes of men, but had departed forever.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

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.

I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

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.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.