Because we are unqualifiedly and without reservation against any system of denominational schools, maintained by the adherents of any creed with the help of state aid, therefore, we as strenuously insist that the public schools shall be free from sectarian influences, and above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.

The immigrant must not be allowed to drift or to be put at the mercy of the exploiter. Our object is not to imitate one of the older racial types, but to maintain a new American type and then to secure loyalty to this type. We cannot secure such loyalty unless we make this a country where men shall feel that they have justice and also where they shall feel that they are required to perform the duties imposed upon them.

Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

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

You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law.