Author Profession

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

Profession : President

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Profession : President

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

Profession : President

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

Profession : President

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Profession : President

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

Profession : President

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Profession : President

Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Profession : President

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

Profession : President

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

Profession : President