Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely.

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

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...