Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.

It may be that at some time in the dim future of the race the need for war will vanish: but that time is yet ages distant. As yet no nation can hold its place in the world, or can do any work really worth doing, unless it stands ready to guard its right with an armed hand.