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.

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.

Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.

I am a part of everything that I have read.