You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. The mischief of it is that when they swell, they do not swell enough to burst.

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

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.