I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization.

Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully installed without shock or strain.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.