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

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.

The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.

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

An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.

People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.