I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.
Don’t spread patriotism too thin.
I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.
A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.
Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.
A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.
The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.
It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he is morally stronger, but that he is intellectually weaker. He is not more virtuous. He is simply more foolish.
Argument weak; speak loudly!
Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has the moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere.
All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.
Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.
No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.
Mother went off for three days to New York and Mame and Quentin took instant advantage of her absence to fall sick. Quentin’s sickness was surely due to a riot in candy and ice-cream with chocolate sauce.
It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well.
The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages.
The chase is among the best of all national pastimes; it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in an individual, the possession of no other qualities can possibly atone.
No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.
There are some timid souls that will never know victory nor defeat.