It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations

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

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty.

My judgment is that neither House of Congress, nor both combined, have any right to interfere in the count. It is for the Vice-President to do it all.... There should be no compromise of our Constitutional rights.

Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.

Every expert was once a beginner.

One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South, for a soundcurrency, etc., etc., but I never forgot my party.... I knew that all good measures would suffer if my Administration was followed by the defeat of my party. Result, a great victory in 1880. Executive and legislature both completely Republican.