American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power houses.

Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

A certain secret jealousy of the British Minister is always lurking in the breast of every American Senator, if he is truly democratic; for democracy, rightly understood, is the government of the people, by the people, for the benefit of Senators, and there is always a danger that the British Minister may not understand this political principle as he should.