For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have.

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

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

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.

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.