"We are not afraid to expand now."
"If a man is not decent, is not square and honest, then the possession of ability only serves to render him more dangerous to the community; as a wild beast grows more dangerous the stronger and fierce..."
"Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only;"
"We shall make our government a success if we shall measure each man by the standard of his worth as a man."
"Brotherhood, fundamentally, means treating each man at his worth as a man."
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
"A man to be a good American must be straight, and he must also be strong."
"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."
"Play is a first rate thing, as long as you know it is play."
"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 hand..."
"Here in America we pride ourselves on our liberty under the law—a very different thing from lawlessness."
"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."
"I believe in preaching, but I believe in practice a good deal more."
"You ought not to want to see it anyway; but only now and then comes the chance to do the good work in war."
"It is a great thing to have had forefathers who did their work well in the world."
"I pity no man because he has got to work."
"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."
