[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

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

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.

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.

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.