No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet.

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.

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.