To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it.

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.