The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.

The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.

The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.