There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

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.

If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.