As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.