The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered.
Our fight is a fundamental fight against both of the old corrupt party machines, for both are under the dominion of the plunder league of the professional politicians who are controlled and sustained...
If this country is really to go forward along the path of social and economic justice, there must be a new party of nationwide and non-sectional principles, a party where the titular national chiefs a...
Believe that you can and you are halfway there
There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.
Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let sel...
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
...the more I see the better satisfied I am that 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 d...
No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.
A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.