I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.

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.

The object of love is to serve, not to win

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