Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.

If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.

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

The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad.