In calm water every ship has a good captain.

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

I have tried so hard to do the right.

He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen . . . should share with him. . . . Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.

I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.

The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of restriction, but they should not tolerate the oppression of individuals of a special race.

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.