"For that I do not pity them. I admire them."
"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..."
"It is the man behind the gun in war, and it is the man behind the plough in peace."
"I despise the man who will not work."
"I think that this is a State that favors longevity."
"Both must be put down."
"Play is a first rate thing, as long as you know it is play."
"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."
"It will not be worth while summoning our people to do well in war if they have not done well in peace beforehand."
"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 ..."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I ask for honesty. I ask for courage."
"The first requisite of liberty, as we and our forefathers have known it, is the willingness to abide by the law."
