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

There is no indispensable man.

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.

War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.