No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.

One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past; and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks.