It is the man behind the gun in war, and it is the man behind the plough in peace.

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.

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…

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

I think that this is a State that favors longevity.

You have got to have— you of the Civil War, you fought with widely different weapons and widely different tactics from the men who were with Ethan Allen.

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

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.

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

Gentlemen and ladies, it has always been a pleasure to me to come here to your city.

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.

I despise the man who will not work.

I think there is but one class of people who deserve as well as the soldiers and those are they who teach the children of the present how to be the masters of our country in the future.

The best is none too good for this Republic.

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.

I pity no man because he has got to work.

Vermont has always played far more than her part to which she was by population entitled in the affairs of the country.

Both must be put down.