Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.

The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.