“The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .”

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.

Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.

The most popular systems are those that apply a disciplined systematic technique, .. The hardest part for investors is finding a system that fits their lifestyle, and that is a critically important component.

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.

I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.

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.

Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.

You never get it back, but to this day I don’t regret splitting up.

To the heart that knows contentment, every day is Thanksgiving.

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

Someone once told me the definition of hell; on your last day on earth, the person you could have become will meet the person you became.

We are the natural nurturers of the Earth Mother.