"No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the virile qualities without which no nation can speak with power, or can command respect in the councils of the world."

"I have always been a believer in the doctrine that the best way to make a man behave is to treat him as if he were a gentleman."

"We must dare to be great."

"I am an American and not a hyphenated American. I am not an Irish-American, or a German-American, or an English-American, but an American, and nothing else."

"I am not in the least concerned with the abstract rights of the matter, but with the concrete facts."