I hope that it will yet be said, America is America’s best customer.
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.
By competition the total amount of supply is increased, and by increase of the supply a competition in the sale ensues, and this enables the consumer to buy at lower rates. Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty of a nation is marked by the degree in which it neglects and abandons the care of its own industry, leaving it exposed to the action of foreign powers.
A nation’s character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation’s inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and animate our own people.
All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.
Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.