For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.

Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'

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.

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.