Liberty Is No Negation. It Is A

For Honest Merit To Succeed Amid The Tricks And Intrigues Which Are Now So Lamentably Common, I Know Is Difficult; But The Honor Of Success Is Increased By The Obstacles Which Are To Be Surmounted. Let Me Triumph As A Man Or Not At All.

Nobody But Radicals Have Ever Accomplished Anything In A Great Crisis. Conservatives Have Their Place In The Piping Times Of Peace; But In Emergencies Only Rugged Issue Men Amount To Much.

True Art Is But The Anti-type Of Nature; The Embodiment Of Discovered Beauty In Utility.

Honesty Is The Best Policy, Says The Familiar Axiom; But People Who Are Honest On That Principle Defraud No One But Themselves.

We Can Not Overestimate The Fervent Love Of Liberty, The Intelligent Courage, And The Sum Of Common Sense With Which Our Fathers Made The Great Experiment Of Self-government.