The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.