Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

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

Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.

The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.