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

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent processes. We may not be able to set up permanent decisions.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

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.

They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,--and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.