Freemasonry must stand upon the Rock of Truth, religion, political, social, and economic. Nothing is so worthy of its care as freedom in all its aspects. "Free" is the most vital part of Freemasonry. It means freedom of thought and expression, freedom of spiritual and religious ideals, freedom from oppression, freedom from ignorance, superstition, vice and bigotry, freedom to acquire and possess property, to go and come at pleasure, and to rise or fall according to will of ability.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.