The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.

Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.

I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.