Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism.

A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated.

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.

What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.

Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.