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.

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Freemasonry must stand upon the Rock of Truth, religion, political, social, and economic. Nothing is so worthy of its care as freedom in all its aspects. "Free" is the most vital part of Freemasonry. It means freedom of thought and expression, freedom of spiritual and religious ideals, freedom from oppression, freedom from ignorance, superstition, vice and bigotry, freedom to acquire and possess property, to go and come at pleasure, and to rise or fall according to will of ability.

No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.

When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.