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

Perhaps the most typically American place in America.

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

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.

The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

Life is too short for reading inferior books.