My best training came from my father.

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.

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.