Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.

We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.

The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.