I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.

Then get busy and find out how to do it.

I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.

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.

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

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.