You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.