Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

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

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.