It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.

The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.

Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.

We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.

One insidious practice which sugar-coats the dose of Federal intrusion is the division of expense . . .

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.