I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidently ... simply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
A little group of wilful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
Open covenants of peace openly arrived at
My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men may be supposed to have started out with in the old days of the oracles, who communed with the intimations of divinity.
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American.... America is the only idealistic nation in the world.