"Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

“A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.”

“It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.”

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”

“The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.”

“The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.”

“A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.”

“The one who is filled by virtue is like a newborn baby.”

“There is no virtue if there is no immortality.”

“The person of benevolence never worries.”