Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristics in men.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

Surely what a man does when he is in an uncomfortable situation is the best evidence for the sort of man he is.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

No man will ever bring out the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

Great is he, who conquers the frightful. Sublime is he, who, while succumbing to it, fears it not.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.