Here lies, in a "horizontal" position The "outside" case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life "wound up" In hopes of being "taken in hand" by his Maker, And of being thoroughly "cleaned, repaired" and "set a-going" In the world to come.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

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.

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.