There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality. All else is immorality.
The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.
Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.
When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will be a bad thing for everybody and worst of all for those on whose behalf the control is nominally exercised.
In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.
You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law.
In a crisis, the man worth his salt is the man who meets the needs of the situation in whatever way is necessary.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.
A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.
When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.
A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade.
Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.
We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord.
In battle, the ONLY bullets that count are those that hit.
It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.
War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.
Black care rarely sits behind the rider whose pace is fast enough.
Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.
There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.
Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.