The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

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

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.

The benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.

Not long ago I heard a Navy chaplain refer to the sage advice of the Apostle to put first things first...If we are to heed the admonition to put first things first...one of the main essentials which lies at the very beginning of civilization is that of security.

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