Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.

...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.

The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.