The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector.

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night’s rest was best in any event.

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places – even if things asked for are not given.

I’d rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.

I like the woodwork on the stairway, the way those men made everything so intricate.

I don't think people ought to take the elevator if they (can) walk, because they don't get to see the stairway,

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.

The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to despise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a man has, but what he is, settles his class. We can not right matters by taking from one what he has honestly acquired to bestow upon another what he has not earned.

I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.

I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.