Here in America we pride ourselves on our liberty under the law—a very different thing from lawlessness.
The law must get at the big man who goes wrong just as it gets at the small man who goes wrong.
I despise the man who will not work.
Both must be put down.
I believe in preaching, but I believe in practice a good deal more.
You ought not to want to see it anyway; but only now and then comes the chance to do the good work in war.
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...
It has been to me a very great pleasure to visit your State, and above all, to meet your people.
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 have manufactories in your town—shoes, linen, underwear.
You have hay and stock farms outside, and you, therefore, have in this community the farmer and the towns man, the emplo...
The good citizenship has to come from the people themselves.
There is no royal road to good government any more than there is a royal road to learning.
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...
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...
Let's try to get rid of them, but let's show common sense in the effort.
There was no money reward for what you did.
Prosperity by itself never made any man happy.
