It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.

Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.

The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.