If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.

America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.

Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.

The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.