The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.

My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth year from its birth, the independence of the United States. A remarkable epoch in the annals of the human race, destined in future history to form the brightest or the blackest page, according to the use or the abuse of those political institutions by which they shall, in time to come, be shaped by the human mind.

Ideology is the science of idiots.

Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences.

The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.