Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.