To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life...
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
My best training came from my father.
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.
Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.
The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.
I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
All things come to him who waits.
A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.