The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

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

There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home.

Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

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

The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.