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.

Here in America we pride ourselves on our liberty under the law—a very different thing from lawlessness.

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.

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

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.

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…

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.

The law must get at the big man who goes wrong just as it gets at the small man who goes wrong.

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.

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.

I ask for honesty. I ask for courage.

I think that this is a State that favors longevity.

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

The first requisite of liberty, as we and our forefathers have known it, is the willingness to abide by the law.

Both must be put down.

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

You have manufactories in your town—shoes, linen, underwear.

It has been to me a very great pleasure to visit your State, and above all, to meet your people.

You can give a child every advantage, give him books and the teachers, but he has got to learn, he has got to do that himself.

You can frame laws and have a good constitution, and after all has been done that you can do in that way you have accomplished simply the creating of conditions which render it possible to have good citizenship.

The good citizenship has to come from the people themselves.

There is no royal road to good government any more than there is a royal road to learning.