Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.

Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.

It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.

One example is worth a thousand arguments.