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.
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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.
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Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.
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Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
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In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.
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No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.
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It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.
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The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
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Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.