The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.

Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.

We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.

There is no relationship here between Church and State. Religious liberty has its unalterable place, along with civil and human liberty, in the very foundation of the Republic. I hold it [religious intolerance] to be a menace to the very liberties which we boast and cherish.

I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture.

My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly heavy loads, freezing my ass off.... so that now my mental state is comparable to that of a Peruvian Indian, well stoked on coca leaves.

I have been thinking a lot about these things as I have come to the realization of the tremendous responsibilities which rest upon me. It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God. I am bound to believe that in a tumultuous age like ours the most important and imperative duty is the reconstruction of humanity to Almighty God.