The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is gone their spirits stalk the world, carrying inspiration everywhere that they go and reminding men of the lineage, the fine lineage, of those who have sought justice and right.

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.

Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.