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

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

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.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.