Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to deify mere "smartness," unaccompanied by a sense of moral accountability. We shall never make our republic what it should be until as a people we thoroughly understand and put in practice the doctrine that success is abhorrent if attained by the sacrifice of the fundamental principles of morality.

Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!