Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.

The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.