Money will not purchase character or good government.

[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.

Money will not purchase character or good government.

We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the American brand of equality, and the American brand of wages. America had better stay American

I guess I am not naturally energetic. I like to sit around and talk.

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.