In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.
You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.
I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.
The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.
We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
Individual records are nice to get, but before the season starts, you want to play to win the Stanley Cup!
I don't get a whole lot out of the romance thing, but I realize girls do. So I'll go out of my way to make them feel romanced.
The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the world are neither in its interests nor within the scope of its resources. This whole tendency to see ourselves as the center of political enlightenment and as teachers to a great part of the rest of the world strikes me as unthought-through, vainglorious and undesirable.
While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.