It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

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