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

It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.

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.

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

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.

The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to despise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a man has, but what he is, settles his class. We can not right matters by taking from one what he has honestly acquired to bestow upon another what he has not earned.

The bud of victory is always in the truth.