I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.

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.

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.