Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.

Right reason is stronger than force.

Ideas control the world.

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