Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken

I don’t think we had better go into the minute secrets of the campaign, so far as I know them… while I don’t mean to say anything about my birthplace, whether it was in Canada or elsewhere, still, if I should get to going about the secrets …

Honors to me now are not what they once were.

The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.

There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior …

What a pleasant lot of fellows they are. What a pity they have so little sense about politics. If they lived North the last one of them would be Republicans.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.