Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.

Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.

I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,--and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.

My best training came from my father.