Happiness can not come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done. Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904)
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.