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

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion

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

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old