I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Public opinion is founded, to a great extent, on a property basis. What lessens the value of property is opposed, what enhances its value is favored.

I have been occupying a position, since the Presidential election, of silence, of avoiding public speaking, of avoiding public writing. I have been doing so because I thought, upon full consideration, that was the proper course for me to take.

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

Without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his country.

I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true cure is in the next election.