Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.