We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. The mischief of it is that when they swell, they do not swell enough to burst.

We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.

In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.

America is the only idealistic nation in the world.