“No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.”

Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.

If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.

Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

Only peace between equals can last.

To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

We must believe the things We teach our children

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

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

I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.

One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.

If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.

I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.