The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

The government is us we are the government, you and I.