A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.

He [Lincoln] had mastered it {the Bible] absolutely...mastered it so that he became almost 'a man of one Book', who knew that Book and who instinctively put into practice what he had been taught therein.

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.

The name Roosevelt has this legendary force in our country at this time.

And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the world know that we are here and willing to pour out our blood, our treasure, our tears. And that America is ready and if need be desirous of battle

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.