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

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.

Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.

May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.

A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.

I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.