Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field; wherever a mine yields its treasure; wherever a ship or a railroad train carries frei….

Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidif….

God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!.

In my judgment it is the duty of Congress, while respecting to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen, t….

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law..

The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, a….

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came..

A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the confli….

I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right ….

The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values..

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down….

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them..

[It is possible] that the race of red men ... will, before many generations, be remembered only as a strange, weird, dream-like specter, which has pa….

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation..

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality..

..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship..

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the….

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate..

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions..

I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table..

[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support o….