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

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.

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

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. The mischief of it is that when they swell, they do not swell enough to burst.

Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom; or by none; shall be renewed in hope, in confidence, in strength by waters welling up from its own sweet, perennial springs. Not from above; not by patronage of its aristocrats. The flower does not bear the root, but the root the flower.