You ought not to want to see it anyway; but only now and then comes the chance to do the good work in war.
It is a great thing to have had forefathers who did their work well in the world.
It is not enough, gentlemen, to mean well either in battle or in civil life; you not only had to mean well, you had to d...
I ask for honesty. I ask for courage.
The first requisite of liberty, as we and our forefathers have known it, is the willingness to abide by the law.
For that I do not pity them. I admire them.
I thank you.
The best is none too good for this Republic.
I think there is but one class of people who deserve as well as the soldiers and those are they who teach the children o...
I despise the man who will not work.
It has been to me a very great pleasure to visit your State, and above all, to meet your people.
You have hay and stock farms outside, and you, therefore, have in this community the farmer and the towns man, the emplo...
You can frame laws and have a good constitution, and after all has been done that you can do in that way you have accomp...
You can give a child every advantage, give him books and the teachers, but he has got to learn, he has got to do that hi...
There is no royal road to good government any more than there is a royal road to learning.
The good citizenship has to come from the people themselves.
You have manufactories in your town—shoes, linen, underwear.
Do your work and do it up to the handle and then play when you have got time to play, and if you are worth anything enjo...
