The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Its prescriptions are clear and we know what they arebut life is always your last and most authoritative critic.

I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.