Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction

If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely RIGHT.