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.

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.

A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.