“Unlike any other nation, here the people rule, and their will is the supreme law. It is sometimes sneeringly said by those who do not like free government, that here we count heads. True, heads are counted, but brains also.”

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.

We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.

The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.

The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

Half-heartedness never won a battle.

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 free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.

Our past has gone into history.

Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

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.

I am for America because America is for the common people.

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 sacrifice?

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.

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

I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.

Sometimes a little brain damage can help.

Some have brains, and some haven’t, and there it is.

We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

Invention is the most important product of man’s creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.