There is no royal road to good government any more than there is a royal road to learning.
You have hay and stock farms outside, and you, therefore, have in this community the farmer and the towns man, the employer and the wage wor...
The good citizenship has to come from the people themselves.
You have manufactories in your town—shoes, linen, underwear.
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 himself.
If any man tells you that he can advance a specific by which all the evils of the body politic will be made to disappear, distrust him, for ...
Let's devote our best thought and best energies to finding some method of getting rid of any and all evils in the body politic.
In this life as a rule the job that is easy to do is not very well worth while doing.
Now, the grand problem that we should set before us is to keep prosperity, but above all never, under any circumstances, to lend ourselves t...
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 enjoy that, too.
Our officers and men on the march and in battle showed themselves not unworthy of you, the men of the great war.