Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don’t flinch, don’t fall; hit the line hard.
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.
Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.
This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.
Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.
There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.
Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.