A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.

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

I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.