Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it.
We didn’t have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren’t counted as human beings.
I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong.
I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom – is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional.
The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.
Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.
There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.
There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.
The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation – until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.
Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.