"I despise the man who will not work."
"The first requisite of liberty, as we and our forefathers have known it, is the willingness to abide by the law."
"For that I do not pity them. I admire them."
"The law must get at the big man who goes wrong just as it gets at the small man who goes wrong."
"It is a great thing to have had forefathers who did their work well in the world."
"It is not enough, gentlemen, to mean well either in battle or in civil life; you not only had to mean well, you had to do well, and it is the same thing in civil life."
"You ought not to want to see it anyway; but only now and then comes the chance to do the good work in war."
"I believe in preaching, but I believe in practice a good deal more."
"Both must be put down."
"Each man of you who looks back on his life will feel proud to hand to his children, not the memory of the days of ease, but the days that were pretty hard, that meant hard work, but wherein he did som..."
"I ask for honesty. I ask for courage."
"I thank you most warmly for the greeting you have extended to me this evening."
"It is the man behind the gun in war, and it is the man behind the plough in peace."
"Here in America we pride ourselves on our liberty under the law—a very different thing from lawlessness."
"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."
"Vermont has always played far more than her part to which she was by population entitled in the affairs of the country."
"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 ..."
"It will not be worth while summoning our people to do well in war if they have not done well in peace beforehand."
