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

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

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.

It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different forms of faith, but ought to leave these matters entirely on one side, regarding them no more than it regards the artistic or literary pursuits of the citizens.

There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose or obey one will so that instead of making steady way the vessel may pursue a devious or zigzag course, and sometimes merely turn round and round in the water.

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