That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.

New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance and industry. This Invisible Government is reactionary, sinister, unscrupulous, mercenary, and sordid. It is wanting in national ideals and devoid of conscience... This kind of government must be scourged and destroyed.

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

Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.

Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.

The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow its contribution to the welfare of all.... If every word spoken in behalf of truth has its influence and every deed done for the right weighs in the final account, it is immaterial to the Christian whether his eyes behold victory or whether he dies in the midst of conflict.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.