The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.

Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.

The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.

From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high noon when nations stand forth full grown and self-governed, the law of coherence and continuity in political development has suffered no serious breach.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.