We must grow by evolution, not by revolution.

We are not trying to strike down the rich man; on the contrary, we will not tolerate any attack upon his rights.

There is a widespread conviction that the divorce laws are dangerously lax and indifferently administered in some of the States, resulting in a diminishing regard for the sanctity of the marriage relation.

Every friend of peace will join heartily in seeing that those arbitration treaties do become part of the supreme law of the land.

On the other hand, we have the right to expect from the representatives of the people a peculiar care for your interests.

I should be ashamed to see this nation play the part of a weakling.

He will not and cannot do this if our laws are so defective that in the sharp competition of the business world the conscientious man is put at a disadvantage by his less scrupulous fellows.

There must be no hurry, but there must also be no halt; and those who are anxious that there should be no sudden and violent changes must remember that precisely these sudden and violent changes will be rendered likely if we refuse to make…

The right of incorporation ought to be suspended at once until Congress can devise proper legislation for guarding its exercise.

Of all foolish crimes, of all baseless figments of a disturbed imagination, the cry of militarism in this country is the most foolish and the most baseless.

Our faith in the future of the republic is firm, because we believe that on the whole and in the long run our people think clearly and act rightly.

If either the business world or the world of labor loses its head, then it has lost something which cannot be made good by any governmental effort.

On the one hand we have the right to expect a peculiar measure of self-sacrificing service from you.

I deem the matter of sufficient general importance to recommend that the Director of the Census be authorized by appropriate legislation to collect and publish statistics pertaining to that subject covering the period from 1886 to the…

The case calls for the most radical remedy.

I thank you for having given me the chance to speak to you this morning, to say a word of greeting to you and to wish you Godspeed with all my heart.

Let me congratulate you and let me congratulate all of us that we live in a land and at a time when we accept it as natural that this should be an inter-denominational service of thanksgiving.

One of the constant problems of life is to try to cultivate breadth without shallowness, just as we want to cultivate depth without narrowness.