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

We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home.

The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is gone their spirits stalk the world, carrying inspiration everywhere that they go and reminding men of the lineage, the fine lineage, of those who have sought justice and right.