The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
We tend to get what we expect.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
