Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous, and as you added that those were the sentiments of the gentlemen present, representing not only the working class, but citizens of other callings than those of the mechanic, I am happy to concur with you in these sentiments, not only of the native born citizens, but also of the Germans and foreigners from other countries.

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.