What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.