Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.

If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.

When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.

The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services by every means in our power. Thus, and not otherwise, may we be able to assist in preserving peace in the world... The first step – in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come – is to teach men to shoot!