The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen.

You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless it be God. Certainly not of allegiance to those who temporarily represent this great government. You have taken an oath of allegiance to a great ideal, to a great body of principles, to a great hope of the human race.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.

Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.