Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of publi...c office.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider... it a triumph of the suffrage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfi...es.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not f...inished with me yet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religio...n. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »