Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

Suicide is not a remedy.

Right reason is stronger than force.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.