I thank you.
For that I do not pity them. I admire them.
The first requisite of liberty, as we and our forefathers have known it, is the willingness to abide by the law.
It is the man behind the gun in war, and it is the man behind the plough in peace.
I ask for honesty. I ask for courage.
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...
It is a great thing to have had forefathers who did their work well in the world.
I believe in preaching, but I believe in practice a good deal more.
Both must be put down.
Here in America we pride ourselves on our liberty under the law—a very different thing from lawlessness.
Vermont has always played far more than her part to which she was by population entitled in the affairs of the country.
I pity no man because he has got to work.
It will not be worth while summoning our people to do well in war if they have not done well in peace beforehand.
Violence of the individual, above all, violence of a mob—that type of violence—is incompatible with free government, wit...
I think that this is a State that favors longevity.
You have got to have— you of the Civil War, you fought with widely different weapons and widely different tactics from t...
Our safety lies in the sanity, the cool hard-headedness, the self-restraint, mingled with the resolute purpose of our pe...
I like to see a man who is a good citizen.
