The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.

We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.

To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.

Only peace between equals can last.

We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.