There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

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.