The Constitution guarantees protection to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage to any corporation. It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced.

In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776; but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865; and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts.

The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

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.

When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.

Gradually the true Mason gains experience in using these working tools and can observe subtler and subtler indications of personal flaws.

Almost every man who has by his life-work added to the sum of human achievement of which the race is proud, of which our people are proud, almost every such man has based his life-work largely upon the teachings of the Bible