What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us - what convictions, what courage, what faith - win or lose. A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.

Let's face it. Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains, that we are now on the eve of great d…

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling …

I've burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand. Now I'll burn down the house of anyone who wants to follow me.

A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.

It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enri…