There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country.

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

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.