Exigencies Create The Necessary Ability

My Advice To A Young Man Seeking Deathless Fame Would Be To Espouse An Unpopular Cause And Devote His Life To It.

The Republic Which Sinks To Sleep, Trusting To Constitutions And Machinery, To Politicians And Statesmen, For The Safety Of Its Liberties, Never Will Have Any.

A Large Body Of People, Sufficient To Make A Nation, Have Come To The Conclusion That They Will Have A Government Of A Certain Form. Who Denies Them The Right? Standing With The Principles Of '76 Behind Us, Who Can Deny Them The Right? ... I Maintain On The Principles Of '76 That Abraham Lincoln Has No Right To A Soldier In Fort Sumter. ... You Can Never Make Such A War Popular. ... The North Never Will Endorse Such A War.

The Paleontological Evidence Before Us Today Clearly Demonstrates Ordered Progressive Change With The Successive Development Of New Faunal And Floral Assemblages Through The Changing Epochs Of Our Earth's History. There Should Be No Real Conflict Between Science, Which Is The Search For Truth, And Christ's Teachings, Which I Hold To Be Truth Itself. It Is Only When Scientists Remove God From Creation That The Christian Is Faced With An Irreconcilable Situation.

Society,--the Only Field Where The Sexes Have Ever Met On Terms Of Equality, The Arena Where Character Is Formed And Studied, The Cradle And The Realm Of Public Opinion, The Crucible Of Ideas, The World's University, At Once A School And A Theater, The Spur And The Crown Of Ambition, The Tribunal Which Unmasks Pretension And Stamps Real Merit, The Power That Gives Government Leave To Be, And Outruns The Lazy Church In Fixing The Moral Sense Of The Eye.