I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person

Do something everyday that scares you.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.