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Every expert was once a beginner.
I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar.
Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.
It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.
Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.
Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty.
If any of my men kill prisoners, I'll kill them.
I would strenuously urge a single term of six years.
He serves his party best who serves the country best.
He serves his party best who serves his country best.
My policy is trust peace and to put aside the bayonet.
An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?
It is a government by the corporations, for the corporations.
I would honor the man who give to his country a good newspaper.
The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
We people in camp are merely big children, wayward and changeable.
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.
Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.
One thing you may be sure of, I was not a party to covering up anything.
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete.
No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.
Busy replying to letters from divers office-seekers. They come by the dozens.
One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.
I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).
My hobby more and more is likely to be common school education, or universal education.
The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
We can travel longer, night and day, without losing our spirits than almost any persons we ever met.
The best religion the world has ever known is the religion of the Bible. It builds up all that is good.
Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win.
Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.
Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did.
The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.
The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.
Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.
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.
Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.
The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.
It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations
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.
It is now true that this is God's Country, if equal rights-a fair start and an equal chance in the race of life are everywhere secured to all.
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
General [John] Pope is impulsive and hasty, but energetic, and, what is of most importance, patriotic and sound--perfectly sound.I look for good results.
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.
Both parties are injured by what is going on at Washington. Both are, therefore, more and more disposed to look for candidates outside of that atmosphere.
I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.