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.

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.

The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.

One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.