“I hold no other class of people in our community in quite the regard that I hold the American teacher who is moulding the American nation of tomorrow.”
Speech before the Iowa State Teachers Association
November 4, 1910
“I wonder if you know how much good you do when you go into this active, practical work. It is a help to every man in the country who is striving for decent politics.” A Letter to G.S. Conway, May 22, 1902