The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector

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

Great lives never go out; they go on.

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.

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

I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow. I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process.

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