I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.

Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.

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

..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

Ideas control the world.

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.