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

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

Suicide is not a remedy

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

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

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

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.