An efficient navy of adequate size is not only the best guarantee of peace, but is also the surest means for seeing that if war does come the result shall be honorable to our good name and favorable to our national interests.
Remarks in Haverhill, Massachusetts
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Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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