The United States should not under any circumstances throw away our gun until we are sure the rest of the world cannot arm against us.

A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.

Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit.

They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation. We do not go to war for gain or for territory; we go to war for principles, and we produce young men like these. I think I told every one of them that I would rather have that medal, the Congressional Medal of Honor, than to be President of the United States.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.

But Quantrill and his men were no more bandits than the men on the other side. I've been to reunions of Quantrill's men two or three times. All they were trying to do was protect the property on the Missouri side of the line.