I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.

During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.

We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.