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.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Let him [the President] once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him.... If he rightly interpret the national thought and boldly insist upon it, he is irresistible; and the country never feels the zest of action so much as when the President is of such insight and caliber.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.