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.

The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.

A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his candidacy in a party primary, as is any other citizen. The decision must be made by the constituents to whom he offers himself, and by nobody else.

School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.