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

Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.

I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.

The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.

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.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.