A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full and accurate exhibit of the elements of national life and strength, and it should serve the science of statistics by so exhibiting general results that they may be compared with similar data obtained by other nations.

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.

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

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

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