I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious.

What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

When money comes in at the gate, sport flies out at the window.

What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade.

Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed. But the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck rake, speedily becomes, not a help but one of the most potent forces for evil.