Nothing is perfect on the human stage.

The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever he wants, at his own good pleasure, without restriction or discouragement from the state.

It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have occurred had he outstretched a helping hand in time.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.