No one ever lost his job by listening too much.

The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Life is one darn thing after another.

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you find it always wants to enlarge itself, employ more people, is very busy with Senators and Congressmen to impress upon them the great value of the services of the commission, and even when I talk to people that I appoint to commissions and tell them I would like them to go on to various boards with the idea that they may be abolished, they say they ought to be abolished, but when they have taken their position they very soon seem to change their mind.