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

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.

Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'

I came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamour for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or son of some poor widow away off in some modest community, or perhaps the scion of a great family, who will have to do the fighting.

I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.