A man who never graduated from school might steal from a freight car. But a man who attends college and graduates as a lawyer might steal the whole railroad.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this Great War for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.