Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

Suicide is not a remedy

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.

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.

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

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

Right reason is stronger than force.