Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life that the steps of his progress are taken without improper aids; that he calls no one master, that he does not win or deserve the reputation of being a tool of others, and that if called to public service he may assume its duties with the satisfaction of knowing that he is free to rise to the height of his opportunity.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.

Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period of grave emergency. Its grants of power to the federal government and its limitations of the power of the States were determined in the light of emergency, and they are not altered by emergency.

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.