Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.

The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.

The soul of me is very selfish. I have gone my way after a fashion that made me the center of the plan. And you who are so individual, who are so independent a spirit, whose soul is also a kingdom, have been so loyal, so forgiving, so self-sacrificing in your willingness to live my life. Nothing but love cold have accomplished so wonderful a thing.

A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.