Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.

The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.

Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.

I can not wish you success in your effort to reject the treaty because while it may win the fight it may destroy our cause. My plan cannot fail if the people are with us and we ought not to succeed unless we do have the people with us.

Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.

This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.