When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

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.