It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an emphatic negation of this right to cross-examine a man on his religion before being willing to support him for office.

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.