This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man.
Give the brethren a chance to do something, anything, no matter how small or unimportant. A brother convinced that he is helpful is enthusiastic.
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.
I never won anything without hard labor and the exercise of my best judgment.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not guilty.’
It is always better to be an original than an imitation.
I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed men of my country. I do not regard them as furnishing sound opinion as respects either foreign or domestic business.
It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown.
It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one’s sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.
The teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us to figure to ourselves what that life would be if these teaching were removed.
Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.