No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition.

It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

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.

Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare.

The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.