To carry out this policy is but to act in the spirit of George Washington.

The United States can hope for a permanent career of peace on only one condition, and that is, on condition of building and maintaining a first-class navy.

I can not too emphatically say that this is a measure of peace and not of war.

I advocate that the United States build a navy commensurate with its powers and its needs, because I feel that such a navy will be the surest guaranty and safeguard of peace.

We are not a military nation.

Child labor should be prohibited throughout the Nation.

Strikes themselves are, and should be, recognized to be entirely legal.

It is worth considering whether it would not give greater popular confidence in the impartiality of sentences for contempt if it was required that the issue should be decided by another judge than the one issuing the injunction.

In the modern industrial world combinations are absolutely necessary;

No temporary restraining order should be issued by any court without notice;

It is a reproach to us as a Nation that in both Federal and State legislation we have afforded less protection to public and private employees than any other industrial country of the world.

The burden of the trade risk should be placed upon the Government.

Exactly as the workingman is entitled to his wages, so he should be entitled to indemnity for the injuries sustained in the natural course of his labor.

Under no circumstances should the injured employee or his surviving dependents be required to bring suit against the Government.

Our proposition is not to confer a right of action upon the Government employee, but to secure him suitable provision against injuries received in the course of his employment.

It is a matter of humiliation to the Nation that there should not be on our statute books provision to meet and partially to atone for cruel misfortune when it comes upon a man through no fault of his own while faithfully serving the…

The rates of compensation and the regulations for its payment should be specified in the law.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, excavate, injure or destroy any of the prehistoric ruins or remains thereof declared to be a National Monument, or to locate or settle upon any of the lands…