My speaking is irregular. Sometimes quite good, sometimes not, but generally will do... I am too far along in experience and years both for this business. I do not go into [it] with the zest of old times. Races, baseball, and politics are for the youngsters.

Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.

My policy is trust, peace, and to put aside the bayonet. I do not think the wise policy is to decide contested elections in the States by the use of the nation…

I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough for supporting churches…

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

Jovens de letras, meus amigos, ponde vossos olhos neste exemplo de ouro! Se prudente, mancebo; nunca, ao entrar na carreira literaria, publiques poema ou novel…

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.