The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited.... There is no rightto strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.

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.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

The man who builds a factory, builds a temple.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.