The only reason I read a book is because I cannot see and converse…

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them …

Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.

In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme …

The Senate of the United States has been both extravagantly praised and unreasonably disparaged, according to the predisposition and temper of its various critics... The truth is, in this case as in so many others, something quite …

I yield to no one precedence in love for the South. But because I love the South, I rejoice in the failure of the Confederacy.

It is getting to be harder to run a constitution than to frame one.