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.

There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

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.

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