The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.

We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises.

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.

If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.

It is character that counts in a nation as in a man.