Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.

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

We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.