There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

Things do not get better by being left alone.

Watch your character for your character is your destiny.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.

The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

...to win by one is enough.