Money, Or Even Power, Can Never Yield

Is America Becoming Decadent? Do We No Longer Regard Our Promises And Pledges As Sacred? ... We Promised To Make Peace With Germany Only In Conjunction With The Allies; But We Brought Forward A Separate Peace, Demanding For Ourselves All The Advantages Of The Treaty Of Versailles But Rejecting All The Responsibilities Embodied In The Treaty. It Was America's President Who Induced Europe To Form A League Of Nations; And Then America Was The First Country That Refused To Joint It.... If These Are Not The Symptoms Of National Decadency, What Are They?

It Is When Things Go Hardest, When Life Becomes Most Trying, That There Is The Greatest Need For Having A Fixed Goal, For Having An Air Castle That The Outside World Cannot Wreck. When Few Comforts Come From Without, It Is All The More Necessary To Have A Fount To Draw From Within. And The Man Or Woman Who Has A Star Toward Which To Press Cannot Be Thrown Off The Course, No Matter How The World May Try, No Matter How Far Things Seem To Be Wrong.

There's No Such Thing As A Self-made Man. I've Had Much Help And Have Found That If You Are Willing To Work, Many People Are Willing To Help You.

Whenever Calamity Howlers Shake Their Heads And Impress Upon You That This, That, And The Next Dire Catastrophe Is To Befall This Nation Or The Nations Of The World-such As, For Example, That Exhaustion Of The World's Oil Supply Will Bring All Transportation And Machinery To A Standstill Through Lack Of Lubrication, Or That Exhaustion Of The Earth's Stores Of Coal Will Make Life Unlivable In These Cold Climates-just Smile And Reply That The Worst Troubles Of All Are Those That Never Happen [and] That You Prefer Not To Cross Shaky Bridges Until You Come To Them.

Turn Resolutely To Work, To Recreation, Or In Any Case To Physical Exercise Till You Are So Tired You Can't Help Going To Sleep, And When You Wake Up You Won't Want To Worry.