The essence of a republican government is not command. It is consent.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

Flattery is all right-if you don't inhale.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

The future has waited long enough; if we do not grasp it, other hands, grasping hard and bloody will.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.