Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit...

The fewer the desires, the more peace.

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.

Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.

I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.

The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.