It may be that at some time in the dim future of the race the need for war will vanish: but that time is yet ages distant. As yet no nation can hold its place in the world, or can do any work really worth doing, unless it stands ready to guard its right with an armed hand.

The wild life of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in trust for the benefit both of the present and the future. We must render an accounting of this trust to those who come after us.

To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Every special interest is entitled to justice - full, fair, and complete... but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office.