I Should Be Very Sorry To See

You Know, I Have Found In The Course Of A Long Public Life That The Things I Did Not Say Never Hurt Me.

A Lost Article Invariably Shows Up After You Replace It.

There Have Been Great Men With Little Of What We Call Education. There Have Been Many Small Men With A Great Deal Of Learning. There Has Never Been A Great People Who Did Not Possess Great Learning.

I Have Done It [appointed Commissions] Regretfully And With The Hope That It Would Be Temporary. But After A Commission Is Established You Find It Always Wants To Enlarge Itself, Employ More People, Is Very Busy With Senators And Congressmen To Impress Upon Them The Great Value Of The Services Of The Commission, And Even When I Talk To People That I Appoint To Commissions And Tell Them I Would Like Them To Go On To Various Boards With The Idea That They May Be Abolished, They Say They Ought To Be Abolished, But When They Have Taken Their Position They Very Soon Seem To Change Their Mind.

Self-government Means Self Support.