Right reason is stronger than force.

You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.

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

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

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

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

Suicide is not a remedy