We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

The wild life of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in trust for the benefit both of the present and the future. We must render an accounting of this trust to those who come after us.

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

We are the heirs of the ages

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.