Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.