The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

Suicide is not a remedy

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.