Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Here in America we pride ourselves on our liberty under the law—a very different thing from lawlessness.

The best is none too good for this Republic.

You ought not to want to see it anyway; but only now and then comes the chance to do the good work in war.

Play is a first rate thing, as long as you know it is play.

The first requisite of liberty, as we and our forefathers have known it, is the willingness to abide by the law.

Anarchy in any shape or manner—and by anarchy I mean all types of mob violence, the violence of one man or the violence of many by action against the law—anarchy in any shape or way is the surest handmaiden of tyranny.

I thank you most warmly for the greeting you have extended to me this evening.

The law must get at the big man who goes wrong just as it gets at the small man who goes wrong.

I like to see a man who is a good citizen.

I believe in preaching, but I believe in practice a good deal more.

I ask for honesty. I ask for courage.

I thank you.

Our safety lies in the sanity, the cool hard-headedness, the self-restraint, mingled with the resolute purpose of our people to get the right law on the statute books, to see that it is then enforced against the great and small with even handed justice.

The people of Vermont work with honesty of purpose, the people of Vermont show by their life actions that they are true to an ideal.

It will not be worth while summoning our people to do well in war if they have not done well in peace beforehand.

You have shown that you appreciated the fact that to be a good citizen a man has got to handle himself not with a view to shirking difficulties but to meeting them and overcoming them.

Violence of the individual, above all, violence of a mob—that type of violence—is incompatible with free government, with free and orderly liberty in our republic.