Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately houses, or products of the mill or field are our country? It is a spiritual thought that is in our minds.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.