As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.

Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.

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.

The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is gone their spirits stalk the world, carrying inspiration everywhere that they go and reminding men of the lineage, the fine lineage, of those who have sought justice and right.

Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.