Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
He serves his party best who serves his country best.
The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.
One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.
Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.
Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best.
I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people.
Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.
No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.
The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.
I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
As friends go it is less important to live.
Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.
Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.
