Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

It is only through work and strife that either nation or individual moves on to greatness. The great man is always the man of mighty effort, and usually the man whom grinding need has trained to mighty effort.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time