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.

A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.

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

Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.

Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.