The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man - Davy Crockett

... A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a railroad car on his mind already.

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.