Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!

To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

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

He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington