Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.

To think that I, the son ofthe manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.

A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.