"In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time."
"Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar."
"The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next."
"I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."
"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."
"You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."