Movies are like writing history with lightning.

It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

"Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

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

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