Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

Nobody will ever forget what I've accomplished.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeurat another time. The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse.

It would be difficult to conceive a finer example of true sport.

Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.