A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

If you have enough room for your books, you don't have enough books.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

The massacres are the result of a policy which, as far as can be ascertained, has been entertained for some considerable time by the gang of unscrupulous adventurers who are now in possession of the Government of the Turkish Empire. They hesitated to put it in practice until they thought the favorable moment had come, and that moment seems to have arrived about the month of April.

I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a single point in which the individual is worse off in England as regards his private civil rights or his general liberty of doing and thinking as he pleases. They generally turn the discussion to social equality, the existence of a monarchy and hereditary titles and so forth - matters which are, of course, quite different from freedom in its proper sense.