Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve.

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

Our past has gone into history.

I am for America because America is for the common people.

I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.

Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.

Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.