I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Wise and prudent men - intelligent conservatives - have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.