The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.

America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.

Government is not a warfare of interests.