I can always get along with an honest friend.

It is noble in its administration: to think and let think, beyond the narrow contracted prejudices of bitter sectarians in these modern times. It is general or universal language, fitted to benefit the poor stranger, which no other institution is calculated to reach, by extending the beneficent hand.

We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.

Men make history, not the other way around.

Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.

Study men, not historians.

Leadership is getting people to do things that they don't want to do.