Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted for the judgment of the representative.

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn't have any more.

Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application.