How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.