We never found a real model (for our vision).

Government is not a warfare of interests.

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.