We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.

To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition.

In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.