I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

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 separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.

Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.

At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.