'We, the people of the United States.' Which 'We, the people'? The women were not included.

To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.

I have half-believed for a long time that you were preparing for a public speaker, though I hoped I might be mistaken. Not that I think I wrong in itself, but …

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it...

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. …

'My late mother used to say that it did not matter if you came to this country on the Mayflower or a slave ship, across the Rio Grande or through Ellis Island;…

By the theory of our Government majorities rule, but this right is not an arbitrary or unlimited one. It is a right to be exercised in subordination to the Con…