If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.

The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.

Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.

Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.