Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

... looked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was taken by treaty or by war. ... No treaty could be satisfactory to the whites, no treaty served the needs of humanity and civilization, unless it gave the land to the Americans as unreservedly as any successful war.

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.