Justice delayed is justice denied.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, "God speed her!" She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.