No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

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

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

[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.