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.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

I believe very profoundly in an over-ruling Providence, and I do not fear that any real plans can be thrown off the track. It maynot be intended that I shall be President--but that would not break my heart.

I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen.

The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.

We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.