The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.

And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the world know that we are here and willing to pour out our blood, our treasure, our tears. And that America is ready and if need be desirous of battle

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

The words of the Declaration of Independence, as given effect by Washington...are to be accepted as real, and not as empty phrases...that in very truth this is a government by the people themselves, that the Constitution is theirs, that the courts are theirs, that all the government agents and agencies are theirs... It is for the people themselves finally to decide all questions of public policy and to have their decision made effective...We here, in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world.

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!

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

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.