Quotes

[After viewing The Birth of a Nation (1915)]: It was like writing history with lightning. It is all so terribly true.

[1920: Upon hearing that the Senate had defeated his proposal for the League of Nations] They have shamed us in the eyes of the world.

Never murder a man who is committing suicide.

All that progressives desire is permission to interpret the Constitution according to Darwinian principle.

[on dreams] All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let our dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days till they bring them to sunshine and light, which always come to those who sincerely believe that their dreams will come true.

[on father] My best training came from my father.

You know that it was Jefferson who said that the best government is that which does as little governing as possible... But that time is passed. Government does now whatever experience permits or the times demand.

We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.

Conformity is the only virtue. And every man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.