We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.

...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.