From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high noon when nations stand forth full grown and self-governed, the law of coherence and continuity in political development has suffered no serious breach.

Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

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

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.

I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.