God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with unalienable rights.

If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?

If the educated and influential classes in a community either practice or connive at the systematic violation of laws that seem to them to cross their convenience, what can they expect when the lesson that convenience or a supposed class interest is a sufficient cause for lawlessness has been well learned by the ignorant classes?

I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.

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

That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.

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