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"Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may."
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"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."

"A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."

"Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man."

"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."
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"The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor."


"The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet."


"Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them."


"Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling."


"The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty."


"From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it."


"It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world."
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