I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.

There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.

Let him [the President] once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him.... If he rightly interpret the national thought and boldly insist upon it, he is irresistible; and the country never feels the zest of action so much as when the President is of such insight and caliber.

People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.

I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.