Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces only by obeying their laws. The legislator must formulate in his statutes not only the national will, but also those great laws of social life revealed by statistics.

Ideas control the world.

You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

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

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.