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

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

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 can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.