It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic...
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight ra...
We cordially believe in the rights of property. We think that normally and in the long run the rights of humanity, coincide with the rights of property... But we feel that if in exceptional cases ther...
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else,...
Comparison is the thief of joy.
It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
