I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.

The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.

Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.

A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship if they were deprived of their beer, for example.