Never hit if you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You'll never get any thanks for hitting soft.

I entirely appreciate loyalty to one"s friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it.

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

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

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Let us live in the harness, striving mightily.