The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.

The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic party. It seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.

It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery...and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South.

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.

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.