Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely RIGHT.

Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?

When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves.

No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.