Nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.
Poverty is uncomfortable as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.
Ideas control the world.
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.