If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

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

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market. One method is just pernicious to the body politic as the other kind.