Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

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

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.

The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full and accurate exhibit of the elements of national life and strength, and it should serve the science of statistics by so exhibiting general results that they may be compared with similar data obtained by other nations.

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.

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