We will govern them primarily in their interests, but in our own interests also.
The government is a poor place for a man of hysterical temperament.
You have got to have a superstructure, too.
You must have it in peace; you must have it in war.
You can do a good deal through the town, but you can do more for the town than it can do for you.
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 ind...
I have come here less to teach than to learn
The army is a poor place for a man of hysterical temperament.
In this country we have got to have decent and intelligent government, not as a substitute for individual initiative but...
You have got to have the men behind the guns— the men in the engine room.
But education is not enough.
The government cannot do everything.
No laws, however good, can supply the lack of those qualities in any man.
If when people wax fat they kick, as they have kicked since the days of Jeshurun, they will speedily destroy their own p...
Daylight is a powerful discourager of evil.
And the same qualities must be shown in public life if we are to make this country what we will make it—an example to al...
Each talent--the talent for making money, the talent for showing intellect at the bar, or in any other way--if unaccompa...
They will task our intelligence but they will task still more what ranks ahead of intelligence—character.
