As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...

Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.