The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired.

The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.

There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange

It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.

If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.