As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

It is the purpose of the government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.

Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.