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.

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

The business of the country is business.

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

It is not easy to conceive of anything that would be more unfortunate in a community based upon the ideals of which Americans boast than any considerable development of intolerance as regards religion.

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

I appeal to Amherst men to reiterate the Amherst doctrine that the man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due not scorn and blame but reverence and praise.