The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.

Only peace between equals can last.

It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

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.