Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.