The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet.

Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students.

Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.

God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden is all but intolerable, and the things that I have to do are just as much as the human spirit can carry.

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.

What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.