We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.

We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.

It is not in violence and crime that our greatest danger lies. These evils are so perfectly apparent that they very quickly arouse the moral power of the people for their suppression. A far more serious danger lurks in the shirking of those responsibilities of citizenship, where the evil may not be so noticeable but is more insidious and likely to be more devastating.

Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application.

America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government.

We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.