“I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk. ”

“Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.”

“Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.”

“Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.”

“We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government. ”

“I think people are dazzled by Obama's rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president — which means, in our time, a dangerous president — unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction.”

“Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe.”