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.

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.

There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.

Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition.

From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.