I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.

It is only when people can feel that their lives and the property which their industry has produced today will continue to be safe...that there can be...stability of value and...economic progress.

Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because... they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.