It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Just as Lincoln got contradictory advice from the extremists of both sides . . . so now I have to guard myself against the extremists of both sides.

While President, I have been President - emphatically.

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.

It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.