My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere.

All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.

The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty years for alleviating their miseries-all cumulate to impress the name Armenia on the front of the American mind.

The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.

Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the hand of god.

I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.

When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.