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

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been a Divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.

Tortured for the Republic.

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

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.