Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.

Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.

The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't payand that's all one can sayabout it.

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.