I feel that the art of successful government in our country is the art of applying practically the every day principles of decency, morality...
The more one studies the problems of life and of civilization the more one realizes the infinitely greater importance of the man than of his...
Self-help and individual initiative remain to a peculiar degree typical of life in the country, life on a farm, in the lumbering camp, on a ...
While modes of fighting were different in the time of Lincoln from that of Washington, and still more different today, the spirit that wins ...
If he won't try to walk himself he is not worth carrying.
We ought to say it as a reminder to us that we are not to be excused if in the future we do any less well than has been done in the past.
Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether, in the long run, it works more damage than softness of head.
We need good laws, good constitutions, and upright and honest administration of the laws.
Rifles now instead of bows then, but the man behind the rifle is more important than the rifle itself.
We should not be here if it were not for them, but their exercise has caused great questions to rise in our national life.
Each Filipino now has a better chance for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness than he ever dreamed of having before—than he could hav...
It is a much easier thing to tell people that you have got a patent recipe that—will save them from having to take trouble themselves than i...
We need other things, too; we have got to have a proper ideal of our lives; each man must do his duty by his neighbor.
One secret, perhaps I might say the chief secret, of Mr. Blaine's extraordinary hold upon the affections of his countrymen was his entirely ...
We won out because our fathers had iron in their blood, because they dared greatly and did greatly, because when they were convinced where t...
In the army you developed two or three or half a dozen great geniuses.
We need the will to practice them.
These problems are very difficult.