Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.

This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.

It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)

This book [the Bible] speaks both the voice of God and the voice of humanity, for there is told in it the most convincing of human experience that has ever been written...and those who heed that story will know their strength and happiness and success are all summed up in the exhortation, "Fear God and keep His commandments."

Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.

Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.

Government is not a warfare of interests.