What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.

Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

I must be wanting to be President. Every young man does. But I won't let myself think of it; I must not, because if I do, I will begin to work for it; I'll be careful, calculating, cautious in word and act, and so - I'll beat myself.

If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.

Never hit if you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You'll never get any thanks for hitting soft.