“Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.”

“It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.”

“My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ”

“I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?”

“Little things affect little minds.”

“One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.”

“It has been my lot to have found myself in many distant lands. I have never been in one without finding a Scotchman, and I never found a Scotchman who was not head of the poll.”