Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.
Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.
The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.
No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.
Liberty is its own reward.
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
The seed of revolution is repression.
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal – to discover and maintain liberty among men.
In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight.
If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
We should not only master questions, but also act upon them, and act definitely.
Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.