The presence of the blacks is the greatest evil that threatens the United States. They increase, in the Gulf States, faster than do the whites. They cannot be kept for ever in slavery, since the tendencies of the modern world run strongly the other way. They cannot be absorbed into the white population, for the whites will not intermarry with them, not even in the North where they have been free for two generations. Once freed, they would be more dangerous than now, because they would not long submit to be debarred from political rights. A terrible struggle would ensue.

California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back to yours as the golden age, and envy those who first burst into this silent, splendid Nature.

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.