It Is Not Right Or Manly To

To All Our Means Of Culture Is Added The Powerful Incentive To Personal Ambition, No Post Of Honor Is So High But The Poorest May Hope To Reach It.

Whatever I May Believe In Theology, I Do Not Believe In The Doctrine Of Vicarious Atonement In Politics.

It Is The High Privilege And Sacred Duty Of Those Now Living To Educate Their Successors And Fit Them, By Intelligence And Virtue, For The Inheritance Which Awaits Them.

A Nation Is Not Worthy To Be Saved If, In The Hour Of Its Fate, It Will Not Gather Up All Its Jewels Of Manhood And Life, And Go Down Into The Conflict However Bloody And Doubtful, Resolved On Measureless Ruin Or Complete Success.

I Never Meet A Ragged Boy In The Street Without Feeling That I May Owe Him A Salute, For I Know Not What Possibilities May Be Buttoned Up Under His Coat.