The law is no respecter of persons.

We are going to see great manufacturing centers here in Montana taking advantage of the power of your waters.

And Congress, the National Legislature, has not of recent years put upon the statute books any law as wise, as beneficent as the National irrigation act of a year ago.

You need first of all to distribute the water in space through the irrigating ditches, and then to preserve it in time by storage in reservoirs.

We are bound in honor to try to remedy injustice; but if we are wise we will seek to remedy it in practical ways.

While all people are foolish if they violate or rail against the law—wicked as well as foolish, but all foolish—yet the most foolish man in this Republic is the man of wealth who complains because the law is administered with impartial…

Incidentally, whether he acquiesce or not, the law will be enforced, and this whoever he may be, great or small, and at whichever end of the social scale he may be.

I ask that we see to it in our country that the line of division in the deeper matters of our citizenship be drawn, never between section and section, never between creed and creed, never, thrice never, between class and class.

Ours is a government of liberty by, through and under the law.

Great good has come from the development of our railroad system.

The crime of cunning, the crime of greed, the crime of violence, are all equally crimes, and against them all alike the law must set its face.

No man is above it and no man is below it.

Every man who has made wealth or used it in developing great legitimate business enterprises has been of benefit and not harm to the country at large.

This is not and never shall be a government either of a plutocracy or of a mob.

His folly is greater than the folly of any other man who so complains; for he lives and moves and has his being because the law does in fact protect him and his property.

We have the right to ask every decent American citizen to rally to the support of the law if it is ever broken against the interest of the rich man.

I cannot sufficiently congratulate you, Mr. President, upon what has been done here with this college.

I do pay proper heed to them.