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

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Let us live in the harness, striving mightily.

Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.

He [Lincoln] had mastered it {the Bible] absolutely...mastered it so that he became almost 'a man of one Book', who knew that Book and who instinctively put into practice what he had been taught therein.

A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated.

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.