These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.

American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible

The duties which a police officer owes to the state are of a most exacting nature. No one is compelled to choose the profession ofa police officer, but having chosen it, everyone is obliged to live up to the standard of its requirements. To join in that high enterprise means the surrender of much individual freedom.

It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.