America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...

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

My best training came from my father.

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

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

A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.

Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.