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

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

The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.

I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.