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

If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.

To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't payand that's all one can sayabout it.

[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.

No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.

If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.