We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet.

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.