Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace.

In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back to yours as the golden age, and envy those who first burst into this silent, splendid Nature.

The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he calls 'magnetic,' and does not value, because he sees no need for, originality or profundity, a fine culture or a wide knowledge.

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

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

California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.