Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.

The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.

The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

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

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.

My best training came from my father.