I will accept the nomination for President if it is tendered to me, and I will adhere to this decision until the convention has expressed its preference.

One of the chief principles for which I have stood, and for which I now stand, and which I have always endeavored and always shall endeavor to reduce to action, is the genuine rule of the people.

I deeply appreciate your letter, and I realize to the full the heavy responsibility it puts upon me.

I stand for the square deal.

No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election; and, if he makes such a pledge and does not keep it, hunt him out of public life.

I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.

A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.

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.

We must drive the special interests out of politics.

Our country—this great Republic—means nothing unless it means the triumph of a real democracy, the triumph of popular government, and, in the long run, of an economic system under which each man shall be guaranteed the opportunity to show…

I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as examples for the future.

Practical equality of opportunity for all citizens, when we achieve it, will have two great results.

Every special interest is entitled to justice—full, fair, and complete—and, now, mind you, if there were any attempt by mob-violence to plunder and work harm to the special interest, whatever it may be, that I most dislike, and the wealthy…

We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far as is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he…

France is one of these nations. For her to sink would be a loss to all the world.

Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.

If you will steal for me you will steal from me.

The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary.