The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.