Be militant! Be an organization that is going to do things! If you can find older men who will give you countenance and acceptableleadership, follow them; but if you cannot, organize separately and dispense with them. There are only two sorts of men to be associated with when something is to be done: Those are young men and men who never grow old.

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

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

I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.

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

We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action

We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.