Must Swear Off From Swearing. Bad Habit.

Law Without Education Is A Dead Letter. With Education The Needed Law Follows Without Effort And, Of Course, With Power To Execute Itself; Indeed, It Seems To Execute Itself.

General Education Is The Best Preventive Of The Evils Now Most Dreaded. In The Civilized Countries Of The World, The Question Is How To Distribute Most Generally And Equally The Property Of The World. As A Rule, Where Education Is Most General The Distribution Of Property Is Most General.... As Knowledge Spreads, Wealth Spreads. To Diffuse Knowledge Is To Diffuse Wealth. To Give All An Equal Chance To Acquire Knowledge Is The Best And Surest Way To Give All An Equal Chance To Acquire Property.

What Congress And The Popular Sentiment Approve Is Rarely Defeated By Reason Of Constitutional Objections. I Trust The Measure Will Turn Out Well. It Is A Great Relief To Me. Defeat In This Way, After A Full And Public Hearing Before This [electoral] Commission, Is Not Mortifying In Any Degree, And Success Will Be In All Respects More Satisfactory.

I See No Reason Why Indians Who Can Give Satisfactory Proof Of Having By Their Own Labor Supported Their Families For A Number Of Years, And Who Are Willing To Detach Themselves From Their Tribal Relations, Should Not Be Admitted To The Benefit Of The Homestead Act And The Privileges Of Citizenship, And I Recommend The Passage Of A Law To That Effect. It Will Be An Act Of Justice As Well As A Measure Of Encouragement.

The Climate Of Ohio Is Perfect, Considered As The Home Of An Ideal Republican People. Climate Has Much To Do With National Character.... A Climate Which Permits Labor Out-of-doors Every Month In The Year And Which Requires Industry To Secure Comfort--to Provide Food, Shelter, Clothing, Fuel, Etc.--is The Very Climate Which Secures The Highest Civilization.