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.

We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.

Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.

A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.