The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.

Each man begins with his own world to conquer, and his education is the measure of his conquest.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.

The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.

Maintain a persistent focus of what you want. You will attract the divine force to bring it into existence.

The mind does strange things when confronted with sights it doesn’t want to process, sometimes leading to actions that would be deemed inappropriate at any other time

All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.

Do not risk your life for someone who does not care about you.

Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Love and prayer are intimately related.

One of the most powerful feelings in the world is after a really, really long run.

Mark Twain had it backwards. Nowadays everybody is doing something about the weather, but nobody is talking about it.

The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.