Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. |
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. |
No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it |
No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expedience |
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body - to risk his well-being - to risk his life - in a great cause |
No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue |
No people is fully civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse |
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. |
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor. |
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. |
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other. |
One of the great sights which every American, if he can travel at all, should see. |
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. |
Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking. |
Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping. |