I always keep my weather eye on the opposition of my seventh house Moon to my first house Mars.
There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.
We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.
Performance should be made square with promise.
The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.
I have already lived and enjoyed as much life as any nine other men I have known.
Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.
It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.
Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.
Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.
What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.
A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill.
There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition.
If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an emphatic negation of this right to cross-examine a man on his religion before being willing to support him for office.
All for each, and each for all, is a good motto; but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others.
I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding.
The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.
In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.
I don’t think any President ever enjoyed himself more than I did. Moreover, I don’t think any ex-President ever enjoyed himself more.
Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.