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.

The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.

Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.