The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air.

The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.

The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless it be God. Certainly not of allegiance to those who temporarily represent this great government. You have taken an oath of allegiance to a great ideal, to a great body of principles, to a great hope of the human race.

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.