I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.

With self-discipline, all things are possible

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

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

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American. All privileges based on wealth, and all enmity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American-both of them equally so. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.