A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.