That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.

We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.

Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth

What in the world had Grover Cleveland done? Will you tell me? You give it up? I have been looking for six weeks for a Democrat who could tell me what Cleveland has done for the good of his country and for the benefit of the people, but I have not found him.... He says himself...that two-thirds of his time has been uselessly spent with Democrats who want office.... Now he has been so occupied in that way that he has not done anything else.

The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and scarifice?

Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.