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.

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.

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.

I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed men of my country. I do not regard them as furnishing sound opinion as respects either foreign or domestic business.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.

If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more.