In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.

I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot, month in month out and year in and year out, make the kind of untruthful, of bitter assault that they have made and not expect that brutal, violent natures, or brutal and violent characters, especially when the brutality is accompanied by a not very strong mind; they cannot expect that such natures will be unaffected by it.

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

The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Property belongs to man and not man to property.