My hobby more and more is likely to be common school education, or universal education.

He serves his party best who serves the country best.

My policy is trust peace and to put aside the bayonet.

The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete.

We all agree that neither the Government nor political parties ought to interfere with religious sects. It is equally true that religious sects ought not to interfere with the Government or with political parties. We believe that the cause of good government and the cause of religion both suffer by all such interference.

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

The climate of Ohio is perfect, considered as the home of an ideal republican people. Climate has much to do with national character.... A climate which permits labor out-of-doors every month in the year and which requires industry to secure comfort--to provide food, shelter, clothing, fuel, etc.--is the very climate which secures the highest civilization.