It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

No man can do both effective and decent work in public life unless he is a practical politician on the one hand, and a sturdy believer in Sunday-school politics on the other. He must always strive manfully for the best, and yet, like Abraham Lincoln, must often resign himself to accept the best possible.

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

Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare.

If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.

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.