A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

The right is more precious than peace.

No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.

My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men may be supposed to have started out with in the old days of the oracles, who communed with the intimations of divinity.

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

The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.

I am all kinds of a democrat, so far as I can discover but the root of the whole business is this, that I believe in the patriotism and energy and initiative of the average man.