It is of benefit to our people; it is of benefit to foreign peoples; and most of all it is really of benefit to the people of the country concerned.

But I shall act against the abuses of wealth just as against all other abuses.

We have excellent Scriptural authority for the statement that it is well to beware when all men speak well of you; because it is an unfortunate feature of human nature that when they have appreciated a man up to the very last limit, they…

If the law is reasonably speedy and reasonably sure it takes away one great excuse for lawlessness.

As the Judge has so well said, the minute a man becomes President he ceases being the President of a party and is the President of every man, woman, and child within the confines of the Nation.

No greater service is being rendered the American public to-day than by those members of the legal profession whose great good fortune it has been to stand forth as prominently identified with the prosecution of crimes against the state.

Poor indeed would be the soul of the man who did not leave Montgomery a better American than he came into it, after being received as I have been received to-day.

It is in the interest and for the protection of the white man to see that the negro is educated.

The boy or girl won’t turn out that kind of a man or woman if not brought up in that spirit from the beginning.

Speaking broadly, the man who does that is the man whom you can trust if the need for heroism arises.

Every man who is a good farmer, a thrifty, progressive, saving mechanic, who owns his own house, who is free from debt, and able to bring up his children well, and to keep his wife as she should be kept, is not only a first-class citizen…

The bulk have got to be men engaged in the trades, as mechanics, as wage-workers, as farmers.

But the American public does not wish to see the tariff so arranged as to benefit primarily a few wealthy men.

I believe that material wealth is an exceedingly valuable servant, and a particularly abhorrent master, in our National life.

Wherever possible we should gladly give any aid we can to a weaker sister republic which is endeavoring to achieve stability and prosperity.

It has nothing to do with parties or partisanship, and is being carried on with absolute disregard to all merely political considerations; with regard only to efficiency, honesty, and economy.

If you think he is acting in a way so misguided that he will bring ruin to the State or Nation, say so.

We have to war against the same evil tendencies in our own souls; we have to strive to give expression to the same aspirations toward righteousness, toward honor.

In the end this condition will prove intolerable, and will hurt most of all the very class which it at present benefits.

Lincoln set before us forever our ideal when he stated that this country was dedicated to a government of, by, and for the people.

In this world of ours it is practically impossible to get success of any kind on a large scale without paying something for it.

Nevertheless the shadow of desperate war hung over the West.

The pioneers stood for an extreme Americanism, in social, political, and religious matters alike.

Our aim should be to strive to keep the reign of justice alive in this country so that we shall above all things avoid the chance of ever dividing on the lines that separate one class from another, one occupation from another.

Inability to look facts in the face did not alter the facts.