The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.

If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.

In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.

Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.