Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.

It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.

No matter. The dead bird does not leave the nest.

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government