If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.

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.

Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

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

The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.

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