A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond a breach of which subjects him to legal liabilities, and the United States, in aiming to maintain itself as one of the most enlightened nations, would do its citizens gross injustice if it applied to its international relations any other than a high standard of honor and morality.

Party honesty is party expediency.

It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.

Some day I will be better remembered.

My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things.

Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.