Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.

Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.

We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.

Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.

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