And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave behind in them.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation.

There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.