The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

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

Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.

[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

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.