"It is not merely a right but a duty to take the land from the Indians."

"I am an American and I am for America first."

"Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft."

"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to…"

"I have never been in any war, but I have seen a good deal of fighting, and I have heard a good deal about fighting, and I have read a good deal about fighting, and I have thought a good deal about fig…"