In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.

Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.

The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.

The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and scarifice?

The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.

I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.

The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.

One faces the future with one's past.

There is no length that is too great to go to in order to protect your child.

I do feel that whatever happens, it's important to work with great people and do something great. That's how I feel.

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

For me, the best vacation is just relaxing on the couch!

You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.

In life the loser's score is always zero.

Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound.