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.

We do not admire a man of timid peace.

The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.