Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.

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

I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.

Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.