Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature. . . . If the next centennial does not find us a great nation . . . it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.