Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless it be God. Certainly not of allegiance to those who temporarily represent this great government. You have taken an oath of allegiance to a great ideal, to a great body of principles, to a great hope of the human race.

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.

...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.