“The American public rarely appreciate the high quality of the work done by some of our diplomats – work, usually entirely
unnoticed and unrewarded, which redounds to the
interest and the honor of all of us.”

– An Autobiography, 1913

“Every feat of heroism makes us forever indebted
to the man who performed it.”

– Des Moines, Iowa, November 4, 1910

“It is always easy for an individual or a party to make promises; the strain comes when the party or individual has to make them good.”

– Baltimore, Maryland, February 23, 1889

“I believe in the party to which we belong because I believe in the principles for which the Republican Party stood in the days
of Abraham Lincoln; and furthermore, and especially
because I believe in treating those principles not
as dead but as living.”

– At the New York Republican State Convention, Saratoga,
September 27, 1910

“Let us insist that the truth be told. The truth only harms weaklings. The American people wish the truth, and can stand the truth.”

– Kansas City Star, January 21, 1918

“A typical vice of American politics – the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks
the meat out of the preceding statement.”

– The Outlook, July 27, 1912

“The dealings of the United States with foreign powers should be considered from no partisan standpoint. Our party divisions affect ourselves purely; and when we are brought face to face with
a foreign nation we should act as Americans merely.”

– The Independent, August 11, 1892

“Congress is the legislative body. To legislate means to
make laws, not merely to talk about them.”

– Forum, December 1895

“It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs
to them and not their servants in office.”

– Majority Rule and the Judiciary, July 1, 1912

“It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that
he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own
industry, honesty and intelligence.”

– Review of Reviews, January 1897

“So we come here together on the Fourth of July to see what a great people we are; to see how well the generations of our
dead have done their duty.”

– Huntington, New York, July 4, 1903

“In the ordinary and low sense which we attach to the words “partisan” and “politician,” a judge of the
Supreme Court should be neither.”

– Letter to Henry Cabot Lodge, July 10, 1902