A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.

This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.

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.

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

High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.