Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.

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

The treasury of America lies in those ambitions, those energies, that cannot be restricted to a special favored class. It depends upon the inventions of unknown men, upon the originations of unknown men, upon the ambitions of unknown men. Every country is renewed out of the ranks of the unknown, not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.

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

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.