Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.

No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.

Never hit if you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You'll never get any thanks for hitting soft.

If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.

If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.

Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism.

I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.