The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity.

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

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.

The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.

Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values it has its counterfeits. So much emphasis has been placed upon the false that the significance of the true has been obscured and politics has come to convey the meaning of crafty and cunning selfishness, instead of candid and sincere service.

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.