The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. Therefore it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average citizen is kept high; and the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher.

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.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.

For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know

We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.