Life is too short to read inferior books..

The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men..

There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, a….

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of th….

The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he calls 'magnetic,'….

An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good pres….

Life is too short for reading inferior books..

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows..

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong..

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence..

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking..

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity..

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature..

The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable..

Of all the differences between the Old World and the New, this is perhaps the most salient. Half the wars of Europe, half the internal troubles that ….

Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace..

No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much..

The national park is the best idea America ever had..

Perhaps the most typically American place in America..

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies..

It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different forms of faith, but ….