Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare.

For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

The Americans of other blood must remember that the man who in good faith and without reservations gives up another country for this must in return receive exactly the same rights, not merely legal, but social and spiritual, that other Americans proudly possess. We of the United States belong to a new and separate nationality. We are all Americans and nothing else, and each, without regard to his birthplace, creed, or national origin, is entitled to exactly the same rights as all other Americans.