Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.

No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.