“Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.”

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.

The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

America was born a Christian nation.

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’

I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.

Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.

It’s a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it’s a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human.

One cannot do humour without a great sympathy for one’s fellow man.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.