It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.

The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.

We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country.

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.

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.