The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full and accurate exhibit of the elements of national life and strength, and it should serve the science of statistics by so exhibiting general results that they may be compared with similar data obtained by other nations.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

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

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

The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.

We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.