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.
The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can’t soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.
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.
The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.
No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.
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.
Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.
The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.