A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk.

When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.

If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.

I entirely appreciate loyalty to one"s friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it.

War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.