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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April .

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best, is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation.

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human beast, the Furies of private interest.

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles, one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately, none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Many politician-type people represent certain great and dazzling actions as if they were results of carefully designed plans, when in actuality, they are usually the results of people's moods and passions...

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. They deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.