The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper, magazine, or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price.

We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.