Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

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 despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

Let us live in the harness, striving mightily.

The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.