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

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.

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

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.

If you are wasting time, wasting money ....

I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.

We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great life sweeter in every possible way.

He that does not repent, sins again.

Two things make smart men stupid, beautiful women and sports

Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.

Use design as a framework to bring order out of chaos.

Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a stranger in your bed.

It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used to writing and doing these little miniature paintings.

I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!