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

Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.

From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high noon when nations stand forth full grown and self-governed, the law of coherence and continuity in political development has suffered no serious breach.

...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Government is not a warfare of interests.