What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

McKinley shows all the background of a chocolate eclair.