Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.

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

There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before.