19th U S President Inspirational Quotes (59)

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

If any of my men kill prisoners, I'll kill them.

Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.

As friends go it is less important to live.

The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty.

An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?

I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question--to be defended from the beginning to the end.

We all agree that neither the Government nor political parties ought to interfere with religious sects. It is equally true that religious sects ought not to interfere with the Government or with political parties. We believe that the cause of good government and the cause of religion both suffer by all such interference.

The religion of the Bible is the best in the world. I see the infinite value of religion. Let it be always encouraged. A world ofsuperstition and folly have grown up around its forms and ceremonies. But the truth in it is one of the deep sentiments in human nature.