In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.

There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.

Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.

High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.

Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great deal rather, for my part, have a man stumble in his speech than to feel he was so exceedingly smooth that he had better be watched both day and night.