“You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.”

“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”

“Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.”

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

“You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!”

“You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence”

“That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence built.”