“We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.”

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

The true Mason’s level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.

The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.

In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.

The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.

There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach – it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.

Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.

The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.

The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.

I’ll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.

I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.

Politics make me sick.

When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn’t really fit in anywhere.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.

Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.

Not every girl who wears makeup feels like, ‘Oh, I’m so ugly without it.’ I wear makeup because it’s fun to put on, and I feel pretty with it on.

You can’t pay enough money to cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.

All I want is to bring you the love and the joy that matches all the pain you have ever felt.