Wild men, screaming through the keyholes.

Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.