We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.

Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.

America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.

Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

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