If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.

The right is more precious than peace.

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.

We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.

The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.