Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.

The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.

We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.

The seed of revolution is repression.

The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.