Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
