Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.

There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for refreshment to thosedays when all the world seemed to be a place of heroic adventure in which one's heart must keep its own counsel.

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.