We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!

The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

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

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.

Civilisation and profits go hand in hand.

Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military force as comports with the dignity and security of a great people.