[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

The divorce between church and state should be absolute.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces only by obeying their laws. The legislator must formulate in his statutes not only the national will, but also those great laws of social life revealed by statistics.

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.