Silence can never be misquoted.

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

Industry cannot flourish if labor languish.

Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin of safety. If taxes and debt are made all the people can bear when times are good, there will be certain disaster when times are bad.

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.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.