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.

Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union.