The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price.

I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to house is one of the real masters of the statistical situation. The other is the man who organizes the results.