Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.