“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.”

“The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS”

“If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.”

“The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us toconverse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.”

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.”

“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”