The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.