Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Responsibility educates.
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.