Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

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

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.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.