The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there is no reason why we should not have it together with character; but if we must choose between the two we choose character without a moment's hesitation.

The words of the Declaration of Independence, as given effect by Washington...are to be accepted as real, and not as empty phrases...that in very truth this is a government by the people themselves, that the Constitution is theirs, that the courts are theirs, that all the government agents and agencies are theirs... It is for the people themselves finally to decide all questions of public policy and to have their decision made effective...We here, in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world.

The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

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.