Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

Reality is what I see, not what you see.

One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

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.

The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.

Government is not a warfare of interests.