I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts

We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.

The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.

In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.

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