To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.

This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.

Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.