We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good".

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.