Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak…

It can be said of him [Scott], when he departed he took a man's life along with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth ce…

Right here let me make as vigorous a plea as I know how in favor of saying nothing that we do not mean, and of acting without hesitation up to whatever we say.…