"Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

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.

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction

To think that I, the son ofthe manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.