I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else

The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.

Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages.