A child miseducated is a child lost. A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. A nation which has forgotten the quality [...]

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me. It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. share: Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Print for later Bookmark in Browser Tell a [...]

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. Absolute identity with one’s [...]

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people. Expositions are the timekeepers of progress. I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform. I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president. [...]

A government is for the benefit of all the people. A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad. Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law. Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut [...]

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. I believe that all [...]

America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. I don’t know much about Americanism, but it’s a damn good word with which to carry an election. I don’t know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that [...]

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished. Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book [...]

As friends go it is less important to live. Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you. Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can’t soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own. He serves his party best who serves his country best. I [...]

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue. Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate [...]