The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.

Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.

A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.

It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.