I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.