Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

One who brandishes a pistol must be prepared to shoot.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere.

While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used by American leaders for over a half-century in eulogy of those God-fearing men and women of honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of rights led them to make their own way in life.

Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven.