What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.

The competent leader of men cares little for the niceties of other peoples' characters: he cares much--everything--for the exterior uses to which they may be put.... These are men to be moved. How should he move them? He supplies the power; others simply the materials on which that power operates.

I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.

Government is not a warfare of interests.