Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing na­tures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning.

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.

Liberty is its own reward.

America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.

I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.

The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.