Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.

No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.

A precedent embalms a principle.

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

I repeat…that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.