“Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world.”

“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.”

“Sir, I had rather be right than to be President.”

“Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.”

“Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.”

“Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.”

“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”

“They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.”

“A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.”