I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

The divorce between church and state should be absolute.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

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.

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

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