We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them.

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.