Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.

When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.

It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.