Political parties serve to keep each other in check one keenly watching the other.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.

It is better to fall short of a high mark than to reach a low one.

Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the Presidency.

The best wins or looses in life are those that leave you with a newer vision onto life.

It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King.

To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.

I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane, the Army were plain not interested.

That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.

A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special kind.

Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.