The welfare, the happiness, the energy and spirit of the men and women who do the daily workis the underlying necessity of all prosperity.... There can be nothing wholesome unless their life is wholesome; there can be no contentment unless they are contented.

I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.

I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.

A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.

The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.