There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.

Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics.

Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.

From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages.

In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

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

I am a part of everything that I have read.