"Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy."

"Put out the light."

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' - and get busy and find out how to do it."

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president."

"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."

"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."

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."

"When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less."

"It takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing less than truth can survive. You cannot survive with anything less than truth."

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

"Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?"

"I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth."