Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.

The treasury of America lies in those ambitions, those energies, that cannot be restricted to a special favored class. It depends upon the inventions of unknown men, upon the originations of unknown men, upon the ambitions of unknown men. Every country is renewed out of the ranks of the unknown, not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government.... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.

The object of love is to serve, not to win

I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.