Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations

The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.

The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.

We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.