Rifles now instead of bows then, but the man behind the rifle is more important than the rifle itself.

I have come here less to teach than to learn

The government is a poor place for a man of hysterical temperament.

You have got to have the men behind the guns— the men in the engine room.

You must have it in peace; you must have it in war.

The government cannot do everything.

You can do a good deal through the town, but you can do more for the town than it can do for you.

No laws, however good, can supply the lack of those qualities in any man.

The army is a poor place for a man of hysterical temperament.

But education is not enough.

You have got to have a superstructure, too.

In this country we have got to have decent and intelligent government, not as a substitute for individual initiative but as a supplement to it.

The government can do something—it can do a good deal—but it never can begin to do as much for the individual as the individual can do for the government.

Daylight is a powerful discourager of evil.

They will task our intelligence but they will task still more what ranks ahead of intelligence—character.

When the weather is good for crops it is good for weeds.

Each talent--the talent for making money, the talent for showing intellect at the bar, or in any other way--if unaccompanied by character, makes the possessor a menace to the community.

If when people wax fat they kick, as they have kicked since the days of Jeshurun, they will speedily destroy their own prosperity.