We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests.

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.

His name is Rufus II-but the II is silent.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.