You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

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.

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.

Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.

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