To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.