We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.
Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.
When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.
If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.
Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.
I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.
I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.
In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776; but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865; and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts.
Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.
The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war...
I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.
If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.
I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.
To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible.
The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.
We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.
Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?
I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.
Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.
Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.