My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things.
It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory.
If you are still in school, do not neglect your grades. Internships and other activities are fine, but when legal employers have to decide who to interview, grades play a big role in determining who makes that cut and who doesn’t.
Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
I have tried so hard to do the right.
Party honesty is party expediency.
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
When more of the people’s sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government.
It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.
I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.
Some day I will be better remembered.
I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.
Good ball players make good citizens.
I know that human prejudice – especially that growing out of race and religion – is cruelly inveterate and lasting.
It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.
The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people.
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.
It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!
The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.