The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

Do not get into a fight if you can possibly avoid it. If you get in, see it through. Don't hit if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft. Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep.

It may be that 'the voice of the people is the voice of God' in fifty one cases out of a hundred, but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, of, what is still worse, the voice of a fool.

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.