“It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.”

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places – even if things asked for are not given.

The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with unalienable rights.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night’s rest was best in any event.

I’d rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.

That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.

Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately houses, or products of the mill or field are our country? It is a spiritual thought that is in our minds.

If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?

No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.

It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.

I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game.

Chemistry is important. If you like your teammates, it’s going to be easier to play with them on the court.

It’s easier for me if I’m just open and transparent to a point.