Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

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

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.

My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.