Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'

The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

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

If Freud had worn a kilt in the prescribed Highland manner he might have had a very different attitude to genitals.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.

We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.