Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

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

I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.

I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.

Believe you can do it and you are halfway there

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement.