If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual.

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law

The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object is to hold and increase their power. The prime need is to change the conditions which enable these men to accumulate power which is not for the general welfare that they should hold or exercise. We grudge no man a fortune which represents his own power and sagacity, when exercised with entire regard to the welfare of his fellows.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.