The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.