No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

I do not understand how these statements could be made with Congress having yet to be fully consulted ... Indian authorities know more about this important proposal than we in Congress,

Because she sat where she sat, we are now sitting in Congress, ... We are sitting in the Supreme Court. We are sitting as CEOs and heads of universities.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.