For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs.

Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.

Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf.

In order to appreciate a great man, we must know his surroundings. We must understand the scope of the drama in which he played - the part he acted - and we must also know his audience.

Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.

The past informs the present.