Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it.
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.