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

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

For love of country, they accepted death.

Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.

Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.

In my judgment it is the duty of Congress, while respecting to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen, to prohibit within its jurisdiction all criminal practices ... Nor can any ecclesiastical organization be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the National Government.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.