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

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.