The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.

We do not admire a man of timid peace.

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

When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.