I always keep my weather eye on the opposition of my seventh house Moon to my first house Mars.

The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

A man's usefulness depends on his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance.