Our great dangers are not from without. We do not live by the consent of any other nation. We must look within to find elements of danger.
[From a Speech on the Ninth Census.]
Statesmanship consists rather in removing causes than in punishing, or evading results.
[From a Speech, December 10, 1878.]
The man who wants to serve his country must put himself in the line of its leading thought, and that is the restoration of business, trade, commerce, industry, sound political economy, hard money, and the payment of all obligations; and the man who can add anything in the direction of accomplishing any of these purposes is a public benefactor.
The scientific spirit has cast out the Demons and presented us with Nature, clothed in her right mind and living under the reign of law. It has given us for the sorceries of the alchemist, the beautiful laws of chemistry; for the dreams of the astrologer, the sublime truths of astronomy; for the wild visions of cosmogony, the monumental records of geology; for the anarchy of diabolism, the laws of God.
We no longer attribute the untimely death of infants to the sin of Adam, but to bad nursing and ignorance.