History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

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.

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.

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

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

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.