The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.

There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.

Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his shortcomings by blaming his opponents and hope the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned.

The Union has become not merely a physical union of states, but rather a spiritual union in common ideals of our people. Within it is room for every variety of opinion, every possible experiment in social progress. Out of such variety comes growth, but only if we preserve and maintain our spiritual solidarity.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.