Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.