In my judgment it is the duty of Congress, while respecting to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen, to prohibit within its jurisdiction all criminal practices ... Nor can any ecclesiastical organization be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the National Government.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.