We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.

I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts

Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.