When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.

When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.