The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

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

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.

I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.

The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.

The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best.

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.

One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.

He serves his party best who serves his country best.

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.

I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people.

The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

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.

As friends go it is less important to live.

Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.

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

Fighting battles is like courting girls those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win.

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.

There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.

New situations requiring closer contact with the rabbit had been gradually introduced and the degree to which these situations were avoided, tolerated, or welcomed, at each experimental session, gave the measure of improvement.

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.

The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement.

Practice without improvement is meaningless.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.