Your race is entitled to great praise for the contribution it makes…

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them. Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness. That state is most fortunate in its form of government …

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Well, they’re going to elect that Stupid Hoover, and he’s going to have some trouble. He’s going to have to spend money, but it won’t be enough. Then the Democrats will come in. But they don’t know anything about money.

[Speaking of Chinese president Sun Yat-sen] ...combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.

There were those in the South who would have been willing to wage war for its continuation