The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great deal rather, for my part, have a man stumble in his speech than to feel he was so exceedingly smooth that he had better be watched both day and night.

Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

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

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

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.

We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action