The Government, national and state, can mighty easily spoil chances for all of us.

We need other things, too; we have got to have a proper ideal of our lives; each man must do his duty by his neighbor.

He has got in the first place to be honest and decent.

One secret, perhaps I might say the chief secret, of Mr. Blaine's extraordinary hold upon the affections of his countrymen was his entirely genuine and unaffected Americanism.

Our salvation now, as in the old days, lies in the practical applying of principles that, in theory, we admit to be the only principles according to which it is possible to administer this Republic.

The army is a poor place for a man of hysterical temperament.

You have got to have a superstructure, too.

The government can do something—it can do a good deal—but it never can begin to do as much for the individual as the individual can do for the government.

In this country we have got to have decent and intelligent government, not as a substitute for individual initiative but as a supplement to it.

You have got to have the men behind the guns— the men in the engine room.

I have come here less to teach than to learn

You can do a good deal through the town, but you can do more for the town than it can do for you.

But education is not enough.

No laws, however good, can supply the lack of those qualities in any man.

You must have it in peace; you must have it in war.

The government is a poor place for a man of hysterical temperament.

The government cannot do everything.

If when people wax fat they kick, as they have kicked since the days of Jeshurun, they will speedily destroy their own prosperity.