The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious.

Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance.

A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.

McKinley shows all the background of a chocolate eclair.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.