No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.

... looked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was taken by treaty or by war. ... No treaty could be satisfactory to the whites, no treaty served the needs of humanity and civilization, unless it gave the land to the Americans as unreservedly as any successful war.

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.