In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

With self-discipline, all things are possible

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

There is need of a sound body, and even more need of a sound mind. But above mind and above body stands character-the sum of those qualities which we mean when we speak of a man's force and courage, of his good faith and sense of honor.