The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic party. It seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.