Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.

Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

We are bound together by the most powerful of all ties, our fervent love for freedom and independence, which knows no homeland but the human heart.

I have always felt that the real purpose of government is to enhance the lives of people and that a leader can best do that by restraining government in most cases instead of enlarging it at every opportunity.

I am the first to admit that I am no great orator or no person that got where I have gotten by any William Jennings Bryan technique.

It's more like it is now than it ever has been.