We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.

While President, I have been President - emphatically.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

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.

Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.

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 great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.