I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.

The truth is that in my present life I don't remember that I ever was president.

We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.

That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.

The Government is able to afford a suitable army and a suitable navy. It may maintain them without the slightest danger to the Republic or the cause of free institutions, and fear of additional taxation ought not to change a proper policy in this regard.

The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.

The Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and social virtues taught by symbols, allegories, and lectures based upon fundamental truths, the observance of which tends to promote stability of character, conservatism, morality and good citizenship.