A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

No man can be just who is not free.

I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.

I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government.... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

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

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.