The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.

Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.