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.

I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.

There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great responsibilities, whether it will or no. We have now reached that time. We cannot avoid facing the fact that we occupy a new place among the people of the world.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books