It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

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

We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord.

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

In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

I must be wanting to be President. Every young man does. But I won't let myself think of it; I must not, because if I do, I will begin to work for it; I'll be careful, calculating, cautious in word and act, and so - I'll beat myself.

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.