The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people.

The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune.

I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there is one law for a strong nation and another for a weak one.

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.

Good ball players make good citizens.

I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.