[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.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

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

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.

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

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.