Not all change is progress.

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.

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

Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.