When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.

America was born a Christian nation.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.