Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt

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.

Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head.

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.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.