Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.

A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of mechanics; it must develop. All that progressives ask or desire is permission-in an era when 'development,' 'evolution,' is the scientific word-to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine.

Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.