I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market. One method is just pernicious to the body politic as the other kind.

When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!

I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.

Then get busy and find out how to do it.

In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and must play a great part in the world. It is not open to us to choose whether we will play that great part or not.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.