Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

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

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

No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.

The right is more precious than peace.

At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.