His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it.

The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.

Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.

In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.

Government is not a warfare of interests.

If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.