Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.

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.

Industry cannot flourish if labor languish.

If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government... The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law.