One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.

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.

The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.