Schuyler Colfax

“Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.”

“The past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the future is endowed with such a life, that it is in our hands to make it what we choose.”

“In our country, and in our times, no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education of the people in all his plans of administration.”

“I am a living witness that if you are temperate, industrious, and frugal, you are sure to be respected.”

“The great leading idea of the Republican party is, 'free labor' – the right of a man to his own brain, his own muscles, and his own toil.”

“The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among freemen.”