The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.