The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air.

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

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.

It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

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