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

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.

The fewer the desires, the more peace.

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.

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

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