I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

It may be that 'the voice of the people is the voice of God' in fifty one cases out of a hundred, but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, of, what is still worse, the voice of a fool.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.