Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different forms of faith, but ought to leave these matters entirely on one side, regarding them no more than it regards the artistic or literary pursuits of the citizens.

The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he calls 'magnetic,' and does not value, because he sees no need for, originality or profundity, a fine culture or a wide knowledge.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose or obey one will so that instead of making steady way the vessel may pursue a devious or zigzag course, and sometimes merely turn round and round in the water.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.