I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.

It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.