I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.

Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.

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.

You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.