Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.

To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.

I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.

Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

The welfare, the happiness, the energy and spirit of the men and women who do the daily workis the underlying necessity of all prosperity.... There can be nothing wholesome unless their life is wholesome; there can be no contentment unless they are contented.

The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union.

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.