America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.

I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves.

I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...