“An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.”

The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.

It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.

Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.

Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.

I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.

That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.

Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.

We must be loyal to the forum of our government.

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.