A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.

It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.

The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.