The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.

Liberty is its own reward.

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.

I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.

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

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.