You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.

Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.

I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.