Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

- Charles G. Dawes

How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevit…

- Charles G. Dawes

American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.

- Charles G. Dawes

Tis not the fairest form that holds The mildest, purest soul within; 'Tis not the richest plant that holds The sweetest fragrance in.

- Charles G. Dawes

I should hate to think that the Senate was as tired of me at the beginning of my service as I am of the Senate at the end.

- Charles G. Dawes

For me--I hold no commerce with despair!

- Charles G. Dawes

Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.

- Charles G. Dawes