If you are still in school, do not neglect your grades. Internships and other activities are fine, but when legal employers have to decide who to interview, grades play a big role in determining who makes that cut and who doesn't.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice

Some day I will be better remembered.

In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

Being president means leaving one's name in the history book of which few men are authors. It is my fortune to be blessed with a proud name, one that parents will employ for generations to instill the values of honesty, independence, and above all, courage in their sons.