"Sorry" only counts for that which it cannot alter.

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

Protection is not a principle but an expedient

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.

The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.