The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.

If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.

Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.

The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.

The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.

I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?

As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not merely as a matter of convenience or comfort, but as a matter of stern necessity.