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

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties, and real ones cannot be evaded by political parties. The real political issues of the day declare themselves, and come out of the depths of that deep which we call public opinion.

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.

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show

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

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