Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... The Laws of Moses as well as the laws of Rome contributed suggestions and impulse to the men and institutions which were to prepare the modern world; and if we could have but eyes to see... we should readily discover how very much besides religion we owe to the Jew.

We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action

Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.

We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.