Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

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.

Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.