...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.

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government.... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.

We grow through our dreams. All great men and women are dreamers. Some, however, allow their dreams to die. You should nurse your dreams and protect them through bad times and tough times to the sunshine and light which always come.

A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past; and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks.

We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.