To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible.

The great man is always the man of mighty effort.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.