The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.