Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

If Freud had worn a kilt in the prescribed Highland manner he might have had a very different attitude to genitals.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.