I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made tremendously definite - the Christian must forgive his brother man all crimes he can imagine and commit, and all insults he can conceive and utter - forgive these injuries how many times? - seventy times seven - another way of saying there shall be no limit to this forgiveness. That is the spirit and the law of Christianity.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.