Chauncey Depew

“The rays from this beacon, lighting this gateway to the continent, will welcome the poor and the persecuted with the hope and promise of homes and citizenship. It will teach them that there is room and brotherhood for all who will support our institutions and aid in our development; but that those who come to disturb our peace and dethrone our laws are aliens and enemies forever.”

“A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.”

“I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.”

“If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats.”

“There are millions of stories in the world, and several hundred of them good ones.”

“A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.”

“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.”

“The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.”