To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

I shouldn't want you to be surprised, or to draw any particular inference from my making speeches, or not making speeches, out there. I don't recall any candidate for President that ever injured himself very much by not talking.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

The man who builds a factory, builds a temple.