“It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.”

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.

Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet.

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

Let us have peace.

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.

The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.

ISIS and Iran have declared war on America, and we need a commander in chief who will do everything necessary to keep our children safe.

As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief.

When you’re the commander in chief, you’re the commander in chief on day one. You don’t get like a six-month grace period.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Well, the most important thing a president will be is commander-in-chief. And that requires having an understanding of the complex issues on foreign policy. Foreign policy presents us often with hard choices, not black or white choices.

A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.