It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!
Men and times change-but principles-never.
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?
I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.