The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.

No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.

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

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

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