A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776; but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865; and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts.

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.

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.