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  • “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

    September 18, 2012

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

    Des Moines, Iowa,
    November 4, 1910

    September 11, 2012

  • “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

    September 4, 2012

  • “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

    August 28, 2012

  • “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

    August 14, 2012

  • “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

    August 7, 2012

  • “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

    July 31, 2012

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

    Forum
    December 1895

    July 24, 2012

  • “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

    July 17, 2012

  • “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

    July 10, 2012

  • “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

    July 3, 2012

  • “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

    June 26, 2012

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